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Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers : Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science / Valerie Purton.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Anthem Press, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- †̃Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science' is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. Darwin, Tennyson, Huxley, Ruskin, Richard Owen, Meredith, Wilde and other major writers are discussed, as established scholars in this area explore the interaction between Victorian literary and scientific figures which helped build the intellectual climate of twenty-first century debates.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Tennyson's 'Locksley Hall': Progress and Destitution / Roger Ebbatson Ebbatson, Roger 1
- Chapter 2 'Tennyson's Drift': Evolution in The Princess / Rebecca Stott Stott, Rebecca 13
- Chapter 3 History, Materiality and Type in Tennyson's In Memoriam / Matthew Rowlinson Rowlinson, Matthew 35
- Chapter 4 Darwin, Tennyson and the Writing of 'The Holy Grail' / Valerie Purton Purton, Valerie 49
- Chapter 5 'An Undue Simplification': Tennyson's Evolutionary Afterlife / Michiel Nys Nys, Michiel 65
- Chapter 6 'Like a Megatherium Smoking a Cigar': Darwin's Beagle Fossils in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture / Gowan Dawson Dawson, Gowan 81
- Chapter 7 'No Such Thing as a Flower [...] No Such Thing as a Man': John Ruskin's Response to Darwin / Clive Wilmer Wilmer, Clive 97
- Chapter 8 Darwin and the Art of Paradox / George Levine Levine, George 109
- Chapter 9 Systems and Extravagance: Darwin, Meredith, Tennyson / Gillian Beer Beer, Gillian 135
- Chapter 10 T. H. Huxley, Science and Cultural Agency / Jeff Wallace Wallace, Jeff 153.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102556
- ISBN:
- 9780857280763
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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