Dominated by Darwinism and its numerous guises, evolutionary theory presented opportunities and difficulties for late Victorian novelists. John Glendening shows how a range of texts, from The Island of Doctor Moreau and Dracula to Heart of Darkness, address the interrelationship between order and chaos uncovered by evolutionary thinking. His focus is on how these authors stressed, not objective truths, but rather the contingencies and confusions generated by theories of evolution.
Dominated by Darwinism and its numerous guises, evolutionary theory presented opportunities and difficulties for late Victorian novelists. John Glendening shows how a range of texts, from The Island of Doctor Moreau and Dracula to Heart of Darkness, address the interrelationship between order and chaos uncovered by evolutionary thinking. His focus is on how these authors stressed, not objective truths, but rather the contingencies and confusions generated by theories of evolution.
John Glendening is Professor of English at the University of Montana, USA.
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Contents: Prologue: Tierra del Fuego, 1832-33 Introduction 'Green confusion': evolution and entanglement in Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau The entangled heroine of Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles What ' "modernity" cannot kill': evolution and primitivism in Stoker's Dracula Death and the jungle in Conrad's early fiction Conclusion Epilogue: Galapagos 1835 (2004) Works cited Index.
Contents: Prologue: Tierra del Fuego, 1832-33 Introduction 'Green confusion': evolution and entanglement in Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau The entangled heroine of Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles What ' "modernity" cannot kill': evolution and primitivism in Stoker's Dracula Death and the jungle in Conrad's early fiction Conclusion Epilogue: Galapagos 1835 (2004) Works cited Index.
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