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Speculation and the Darwinian Method in British Romance Fiction, 1859-1914 Elizabeth J. Perlman Navy psychiatrist Robert NThis study explores how British romance fictions published between 1859 and 1914 absorbed distinctly Darwinian attitudes toward the epistemology of science one that accorded with scientific speculation. Following the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, in which Charles Darwin acknowledged arriving at his thesis by allowing himself "to speculate on the subject" of species transmutation, many romance fiction writers embraced, criticized, and