Vital Science (Routledge Revivals) - Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900

In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sought and found ideas in post-Darwinian biology that were susceptible to imaginative transformation. Writers capitalised on the prevailing uncertainty and used it to their own artistic or polemic ends. A fascinating and interdisciplinary title, this reissue will interest students of late Victorian literature, as well as historians of biological theory between The Origin of Species and Mendel.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Definitions and Perspectives; 1. Darwinism on the Deathbed, 1870-1900: The Failings of Natural Selection 2. Victorian Biology and Victorian Letters: An Overview 3. Better, Wiser, and More Beautiful Beings: The Cheerful Doctrine of Evolutionism 4. Laying the Ghost of the Brute: The Fear of Degeneration 5. Remember, Beethoven's Father was a Drunkard: The Dubious Appeal of Eugenics 6. Nemesis without Her Mask: Heredity before Mendel 7. This Body Is an Omnibus: The Motif of Heredity in The Way of All Flesh and Tess of the d'Urbervilles; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter Morton, Morton Peter
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 07.05.2014
• EAN: 9781138799240
• ISBN: 978-1-138-79924-0
• Seiten: 272
• Serie: Routledge Revivals
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; History, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, History of Science, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Biology, life sciences, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Agriculture & Related Industries, Agribusiness and primary industries