This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions--utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children's fables-as responses to Darwinian anthropology after 1860.
This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions--utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children's fables-as responses to Darwinian anthropology after 1860.
Anna Neill is Professor of English at the University of Kansas. She is the author of two other books: British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce (2003) and Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel (2013).
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Chapter One Introduction: Strange Stories and the Descent of Mind Chapter Two Phylogeny Recapitulates Ontogeny: Fantastic Evolution and Fairy Science in The Water-Babies Chapter Three Developmental Nonsense in the Alice Tales Chapter Four Orality, Print, and Evolution in the Just So Stories Chapter Five Becoming Animal in The Island of Doctor Moreau Chapter Six The Machinate Literary Mammal: Samuel Butler's Strange Stories Chapter Seven Exotic Geography, Natural Religion, and the Liberal Case against Eugenics in Flatland Chapter Eight Deep Time and the Socialist Utopia Coda Shallowing the Past
Chapter One Introduction: Strange Stories and the Descent of Mind Chapter Two Phylogeny Recapitulates Ontogeny: Fantastic Evolution and Fairy Science in The Water-Babies Chapter Three Developmental Nonsense in the Alice Tales Chapter Four Orality, Print, and Evolution in the Just So Stories Chapter Five Becoming Animal in The Island of Doctor Moreau Chapter Six The Machinate Literary Mammal: Samuel Butler's Strange Stories Chapter Seven Exotic Geography, Natural Religion, and the Liberal Case against Eugenics in Flatland Chapter Eight Deep Time and the Socialist Utopia Coda Shallowing the Past
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