Darwin, Tennyson and their readers : : explorations in Victorian literature and science / / edited by Valerie Purton.

'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, Mere...

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Superior document:Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
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Place / Publishing House:London : : Anthem Press,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 169 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.