Book review
Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, race, and natural theology in the nineteenth century By Stephen G. Alter ( New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History, [unnumbered.
Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xiii, 193 pp.

Reviewed by Caroline Rose
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