Gowan Dawson, Dawson Gowan

Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability

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Produktbeschreibung

Dawson reveals the underlying tension between Darwin's theories and conventional notions of Victorian respectability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780521128858
• ISBN-10: 0521128854
• Artikelnr.: 28533225

Autorenporträt

Gowan Dawson is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Darwinian science and Victorian respectability
2. Charles Darwin, Algernon Charles Swinburne and sexualised responses to evolution
3. John Tyndall, Walter Pater and the nineteenth-century revival of paganism
4. Darwinism, Victorian freethought and the Obscene Publications Act
5. The refashioning of William Kingdon Clifford's posthumous reputation
6. T. H. Huxley, Henry Maudsley and the pathologisation of aestheticism
Notes
Bibliography
Index.