Darwin's bawdy: the popular, gendered and radical reception of the Descent of Man in the US, 1871–1910 | BJHS Themes | Cambridge Core
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Darwin's bawdy: the popular, gendered and radical reception of the Descent of Man in the US, 1871–1910 - Volume 6
Before Americans encountered and became fascinated with the work of Charles Darwin, another British chronicler of life had long captured the national attention. For much of the 1800s, everyone from California gold miners to Ivy League professors could, and often did, recite by heart the writings of William Shakespeare. Traversing the nation in the 1830s, French scholar Alexis de Tocqueville observed that he had found ‘Shakespeare in the recesses of the forests of the New World’. Not only did Americans read Shakespeare, they also saw Shakespeare performed on stages big and small, in towns and…
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