Will Abberley (University of Sussex)

Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture

Nature, Science and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

Throwing new light on how Victorians conceptualized identity, deception, originality and the relations between sciences and the arts, Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture offers fresh angles on canonical authors and texts. It will appeal to scholars and students of literature and history, and general readers interested in cultural history and history of science.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 309
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781108725767
• ISBN-10: 1108725767
• Artikelnr.: 67636819

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.