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Human evolution and fantastic Victorian fiction
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Human evolution and fantastic Victorian fiction / Anna Neill.
ISBN
9780367722814
036772281X
9781003154181
9781000392722
9781000392708
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
xi, 170 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions -utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children's fables- as responses to Darwinian anthropology after 1860"-- Provided by publisher.
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ebook version :
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 01, 2022
Series
Routledge studies in speculative fiction
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Strange stories and the descent of mind
Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny : fantastic evolution and fairy science in The water-babies
Developmental nonsense in the Alice tales
Orality, print, and evolution in the Just so stories
Becoming animal in The island of Doctor Moreau
The machinate literary mammal : Samuel Butler's strange stories
Exotic geography, natural religion, and the liberal case against eugenics in Flatland
Deep time and the socialist utopia
Coda: Shallowing the past.
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