Darwin, Tennyson and their readers : explorations in Victorian literature and science

Darwin, Tennyson and their readers explorations in Victorian literature and science

'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, Mere...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Purton, Valerie, editor (editor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Anthem Press 2013.
Series:Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
Subjects:
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, > Baron, > 1809-1892.
Huxley, Aldous, > 1894-1963.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424522506719
Table of Contents:
  • Tennyson's Locksley Hall : progress and destitution / Roger Ebbatson
  • Tennyson's drift : evolution in The Princess / Rebecca Stott
  • History, materiality and type in Tennyson's In Memoriam / Matthew Rowlinson
  • Darwin, Tennyson and the writing of The Holy Grail / Valerie Purton
  • An undue simplification : Tennyson's evolutionary afterlife / Michiel Nys
  • Like a megatherium smoking a cigar : Darwin's Beagle fossils in nineteenth-century popular culture / Gowan Dawson
  • No such thing as a flower ... no such thing as a man : John Ruskin's response to Darwin / Cliver Wilmer
  • Darwin and the art of paradox / George Levine
  • Systems and extravagance : Darwin, Meredith, Tennyson / Gillian Beer
  • T.H. Huxley, science and cultural agency / Jeff Wallace.

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