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

Morton, Peter

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

Sinopsis

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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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1138799270
ISBN 13 
9781138799271
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
272
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9780048000255: The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination, 1860-1900

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ISBN 10:  0048000256 ISBN 13:  9780048000255
Editorial: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1984
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