The Vital Science (Routledge Revivals): Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900 - Softcover

Morton, Peter

 
9781138799271: The Vital Science (Routledge Revivals): Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138799270 ISBN 13: 9781138799271
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sought and found ideas in post-Darwinian biology that were susceptible to imaginative transformation. The period between 1860 and 1900 was a time of great confusion in biology; the natural selection hypothesis was in retreat before its acute critics, and no extension of evolutionary theory to human affairs was too bizarre to attract its quota of enthusiasts. Writers capitalised on this prevailing uncertainty and used it to their own artistic or polemic ends. A fascinating and interdisciplinary title, this reissue will interest students of late Victorian literature, as well as historians of biological theory between The Origin of Species and Mendel.

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Peter Morton

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138799270
ISBN 13 
9781138799271
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272

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