Will Abberley

Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

The book reveals how Victorians biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781108477598
• ISBN-10: 1108477593
• Artikelnr.: 59362211

Autorenporträt

Will Abberley is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Sussex. His other books are English Fiction and the Evolution of Language 1850-1914 (2015) and Underwater Worlds: Submerged Visions in Science and Culture (2018). He is a BBC New Generation Thinker and Philip Leverhulme Prize recipient.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Adaptive appearance in nineteenth-century culture; 1. Seeing
things: art, nature and science in representations of crypsis; 2. Divine
displays: Charles Kingsley, hermeneutic natural theology and the problem of
adaptive appearance; 3. Criminal chameleons: the evolution of deceit in
Grant Allen's fiction; 4. Darwin's little ironies: evolution and the ethics
of appearance in Thomas Hardy's fiction; 5. Blending in and standing out I:
crypsis versus individualism in fin-de-siècle cultural criticism; 6.
Blending in and standing out II: mimicry, display and identity politics in
the literary activism of Israel Zangwill and Charlotte Perkins Gilman;
Conclusion. Adaptive appearance and cultural theory.