Charles Darwin as a Celebrity

Charles Darwin as a Celebrity

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Charles Darwin as a Celebrity

dc.contributor.author	Browne, Janet E
dc.date.accessioned	2009-10-07T17:43:44Z
dc.date.issued	2003
dc.identifier.citation	Browne, Janet. 2003. Charles Darwin as a Celebrity. Science in Context 16, no. 1: 175-194.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0269-8897	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3345923
dc.description.abstract	Several recent works in sociology examine the manufacture of public identities through the notion of celebrity. This paper explores the imagery of Charles Darwin as a nineteenth-century scientific celebrity by comparing the public character deliberately manufactured by Darwin and his friends with images constructed by the public as represented here by caricatures in humorous magazines of the era. It is argued that Darwin’s outward persona drew on a subtle tension between public and private. The boundaries between public and private were blurred by the ritual of Darwin “showing” himself in the flesh, either at home to visitors or, more rarely, on public occasions. The reputation for privacy and illness that he built up added materially to this public face. By contrast, caricatures tended to depict him as an ape. These apish representations played a significant role in associating Darwin, rather than any other thinker, with the notion of evolution, and in creating an alternative public persona over which he had no direct control.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	History of Science	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Cambridge University Press	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	doi:10.1017/S0269889703000772	en_US
dash.license	LAA
dc.title	Charles Darwin as a Celebrity	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Version of Record	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Science in Context	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Browne, Janet E
dc.date.available	2009-10-07T17:43:44Z