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The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels: An Entangled Bank

The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels: An Entangled Bank

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 075465821X
ISBN13: 9780754658214
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 19 2007
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Dominated by Darwinism and its numerous guises, evolutionary theory presented opportunities and difficulties for late Victorian novelists. John Glendening shows how a range of texts, from The Island of Doctor Moreau and Dracula to Heart of Darkness, address the interrelationship between order and chaos uncovered by evolutionary thinking. His focus is on how these authors stressed, not objective truths, but rather the contingencies and confusions generated by theories of evolution.

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