News reaches us of an AHRC-funded studentship at Keele University, part of the NW doctoral consortium, entitled Inheriting Erasmus Darwin’s The Temple of Nature: Family History, Evolutionary Thought, and Public Debate. The project makes a timely contribution to research on science, poetry, and evolutionary theory through Erasmus Darwin’s pioneering philosophical poem The Temple of Nature (1803) while also further exploring the relationship between Erasmus and the legacies of his grandson, Charles Darwin. This project will extend understanding of the original social and intellectual contexts of The Temple of Nature in order to re-think the significance the Darwin family acquired in scientific and wider public debates about inheritance following the publication of Origin of Species (1859) and other evolutionary works.
The studentship runs from September 2022; applications are due on 2nd Feb 2022. Full information is here!
