Jessica Straley (University of Utah)

Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

An original and wide-ranging study that examines the convergence of evolutionary theory, educational reform, and Victorian children's literature. It includes discussions of evolutionary ideas underpinning the work of Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781107566811
• ISBN-10: 1107566819
• Artikelnr.: 54641619

Autorenporträt

Jessica Straley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Utah. She has published articles on evolutionary theory, vivisection, and Victorian literature in Victorian Studies and Nineteenth-Century Literature, and has contributed a chapter to Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts, edited by Anna Maria Jones and Rebecca N. Mitchell (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: how the child lost its tail; 1. The child's view of nature:
Margaret Gatty and the challenge to natural theology; 2. Amphibious
tendencies: Charles Kingsley, Herbert Spencer, and evolutionary education;
3. Generic variability: Lewis Carroll, scientific nonsense, and literary
parody; 4. The cure of the wild: Rudyard Kipling and evolutionary
adolescence at home and abroad; 5. Home grown: Frances Hodgson Burnett and
the cultivation of feminine evolution; Conclusion: recapitulation
reconsidered.