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).
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.
