Peter Morton

The Vital Science (Routledge Revivals)

Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781138799240
• ISBN-10: 1138799246
• Artikelnr.: 40624075

Inhaltsangabe

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