Book ID: CBB000774272

Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe: Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post-Darwinian World (2007)

unapi

Gossin, Pamela (Author)


Ashgate


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xvii + 300 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Explores the Darwinian and feminist perspectives of seven of Hardy's novels.


Reviewed By

Review Henry, Holly (2008) Review of "Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe: Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post-Darwinian World". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 419). unapi

Review Shelton, Robert (2009) Review of "Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe: Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post-Darwinian World". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 175). unapi

Review Lightman, Bernard (2008) Review of "Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe: Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post-Darwinian World". Victorian Studies (p. 334). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000774272/

Similar Citations

Book Glendening, John; (2007)
The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels: An Entangled Bank (/isis/citation/CBB000774615/)

Thesis Seimiya, Michiko; (2006)
Darwinism in the Art of Thomas Hardy (/isis/citation/CBB001561308/)

Book Murphy, Patricia; (2006)
In Science's Shadow: Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women (/isis/citation/CBB001030166/)

Thesis Malane, Rachel Ann; (2004)
“Sex in Mind”: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences (/isis/citation/CBB001562029/)

Article Henchman, Anna; (2008)
Hardy's Stargazers and the Astronomy of Other Minds (/isis/citation/CBB001030087/)

Book Henchman, Anna; (2014)
The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature (/isis/citation/CBB001550349/)

Thesis Henchman, Anna Alexandra; (2004)
Astronomy and the Problem of Perception in British Literature, 1830--1910 (/isis/citation/CBB001562098/)

Article Richardson, Angelique; (2010)
Darwin and Reductionisms: Victorian, Neo-Darwinian and Postgenomic Biologies (/isis/citation/CBB001022449/)

Thesis Lynch, Jacquelyn Scott; (2001)
Darwin matters: Modernism and mate choice in Wharton, Joyce, and Hurston (/isis/citation/CBB001560921/)

Article Pietro Janni; (2012)
Leopardi, dalla ginestra alle galassie (/isis/citation/CBB452297253/)

Article Cartwright, John; (2010)
“Star-Defeated Sighs”: Classical Cosmology and Astronomy in the Poetry of A. E. Housman (/isis/citation/CBB001213331/)

Thesis Mo Li; (2017)
Science and Edgar Allan Poe's Pathway to Cosmic Truth (/isis/citation/CBB849763322/)

Article Buckland, Adelene; (2008)
Thomas Hardy, Provincial Geology and the Material Imagination (/isis/citation/CBB001022463/)

Article Sorum, Eve; (2009)
“The Place on the Map”: Geography and Meter in Hardy's Elegies (/isis/citation/CBB001032303/)

Article Sara Lyons; (2020)
Thomas Hardy and the Value of Brains (/isis/citation/CBB840458699/)

Thesis Heather Laura Brink-Roby; (2015)
Typical People in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (/isis/citation/CBB154143219/)

Thesis Frederickson, Kathleen; (2008)
The Content of Instinct: Fiction, Liberalism, and the Sciences of Sexuality,1870--1900 (/isis/citation/CBB001560658/)

Thesis Gerstel, Jennifer Elisabeth; (2002)
Sexual Selection and Mate Choice in Darwin, Eliot, Gaskell, and Hardy (/isis/citation/CBB001560548/)

Thesis McCabe, Elizabeth Caitlin; (2013)
How the Past Remains: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and the Victorian Anthropological Doctrine of Survivals (/isis/citation/CBB001567471/)

Authors & Contributors
Henchman, Anna Alexandra
Buckland, Adelene
Cartwright, John H.
Fisher, Philip
Frederickson, Kathleen
Gerstel, Jennifer Elisabeth
Journals
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Journal of Literature and Science
Modernism/Modernity
Victorian Literature and Culture
Victorian Studies
Technai, An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology
Publishers
Harvard University
University of Chicago
University of Toronto
Ashgate
Oxford University Press
University of Massachusetts Press
Concepts
Science and literature
Astronomy
Darwinism
Poetry and poetics
Science and gender
Cosmology
People
Hardy, Thomas
Eliot, George
Darwin, Charles Robert
Collins, Wilkie
Dickens, Charles
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Great Britain
Ireland
Italy
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment