Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Smith is Professor of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Klappentext A highly illustrated account of Darwin's visual representations of his theories! and their influence on Victorian literature! art and culture. Zusammenfassung In this 2006 book! Jonathan Smith explains how Darwin managed to illustrate the unillustratable - his theories of natural selection - by manipulating the visual conventions of natural history. With its many illustrations this study provides new insights into this little known aspect of Darwin's lasting influence on literature! art and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Seeing things: Charles Darwin and Victorian visual culture; 2. Darwin's barnacles; 3. Darwin's birds; 4. Darwin's plants; 5. Darwin's faces I; 6. Darwin's faces II; 7. Darwin's worms; Bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jonathan Smith
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 14.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521135795
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13579-5
• Seiten: 378
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein