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Record Nr.

UNINA9910306643103321

Titolo

Darwin, Tennyson and their readers : explorations in Victorian literature and science / / edited by Valerie Purton [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-85728-082-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 169 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series

Disciplina

820.9/356

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Tennyson's Locksley Hall : progress and destitution / Roger Ebbatson -- Tennyson's drift : evolution in The Princess / Rebecca Stott -- History, materiality and type in Tennyson's In Memoriam / Matthew Rowlinson -- Darwin, Tennyson and the writing of The Holy Grail / Valerie Purton -- An undue simplification : Tennyson's evolutionary afterlife / Michiel Nys -- Like a megatherium smoking a cigar : Darwin's Beagle fossils in nineteenth-century popular culture / Gowan Dawson -- No such thing as a flower ... no such thing as a man : John Ruskin's response to Darwin / Cliver Wilmer -- Darwin and the art of paradox / George Levine -- Systems and extravagance : Darwin, Meredith, Tennyson / Gillian Beer -- T.H. Huxley, science and cultural agency / Jeff Wallace.

Sommario/riassunto

'Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science' is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. Darwin, Tennyson, Huxley, Ruskin, Richard Owen, Meredith, Wilde and other major writers are discussed, as established scholars in this area explore the interaction between Victorian literary and scientific figures which helped build the intellectual climate of twenty-first century debates.