Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers (eBook, PDF)

Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science
Redaktion: Purton, Valerie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers' is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. The academic study of the interpenetration of Victorian literature and science has grown to be one of the largest and most dynamic areas in Victorian studies: in this collection, leading exponents in the field consider recent developments. The major figures and exact contemporaries, Charles Darwin and Alfred, Lord Tennyson are considered, in the company of John Ruskin, Thomas Huxley, Richard Owen, George Meredith, Oscar Wilde and others. Throughout, the stress is on the ways in which these writers read and were influenced by each other. Our current understanding of this complex cultural dialogue is illustrated here in a single accessible volume of essays by established scholars in this dynamic academic interdiscipline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857280824
• Artikelnr.: 44360784

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