Erasmus Darwin: References & Edit History

Desmond King-Hele, Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unequalled Achievement (1999), is one in a series of books by an author who has energetically campaigned to restore Erasmus Darwin’s reputation. Maureen McNeil, Under the Banner of Science: Erasmus Darwin and His Age (1987), is a sociologist’s Marxist-inspired interpretation of Darwin as a capitalist industrialist; this is an accessible scholarly analysis based on solid research. C.U.M. Smith and Robert Arnott (eds.), The Genius of Erasmus Darwin (2005), is a varied collection of papers originating from a commemorative conference. Jennifer Uglow, The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future (2002), is an inspired and vivid collective biography in which Darwin features as one member of the Lunar Society.