2 The “Profoundest Depths of Time” in Buffon’s Epochs of Nature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Introduction. Deep Time: A Counterhistory 1
7. 1 Primitive Rocks and Primitive Customs: Geological and Human Time in the Pacific Voyage Narratives of John Reinhold and George Forster 30
8. 2 The “Profoundest Depths of Time” in Buffon’s Epochs of Nature 75
9. 3 William Blake, the Ballad Revival, and the Deep Past of Poetry 120
10. 4 The Descent into Deep Time in Darwin and Lubbock: Voyage Narrative, Comparative Method, and Human Animality 176
11. Afterword. Evolutionary Nostalgia and the Romance of Origins 227
12. Notes 241
13. Bibliography 271
14. Index 287
15. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 299