Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers

Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science
Herausgeber: Purton, Valerie

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Produktbeschreibung

'Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science' is an edited collection of essays by Gillian Beer, George Levine and other leading scholars, exploring the interaction between literature and science in the works of Darwin, Tennyson, Huxley and other major figures of the Victorian age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9780857280763
• ISBN-10: 0857280767
• Artikelnr.: 38076863

Autorenporträt

Edited by Valerie Purton 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Valerie Purton; Chapter 1: Tennyson's 'Locksley Hall': Progress and Destitution
Roger Ebbatson; Chapter 2: 'Tennyson's Drift': Evolution in 'The Princess'
Rebecca Stott; Chapter 3: History, Materiality and Type in Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'
Matthew Rowlinson; Chapter 4: Darwin, Tennyson and the Writing of 'The Holy Grail'
Valerie Purton; Chapter 5: 'An Undue Simplification': Tennyson's Evolutionary Afterlife
Michiel Nys; Chapter 6: 'Like a Megatherium Smoking a Cigar': Darwin's Beagle Fossils in Nineteenth
Century Popular Culture
Gowan Dawson; Chapter 7: 'No Such Thing as a Flower [...] No Such Thing as a Man': John Ruskin's Response to Darwin
Clive Wilmer; Chapter 8: Darwin and the Art of Paradox
George Levine; Chapter 9: Systems and Extravagance: Darwin, Meredith, Tennyson
Gillian Beer; Chapter 10: T. H. Huxley, Science and Cultural Agency
Jeff Wallace; Notes on Contributors