Book ID: CBB001421851

Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (2013)

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Purton, Valerie (Editor)


Anthem Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xxii + 169 pp.
Language: English

`Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers' is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. The academic study of the interpenetration of Victorian literature and science has grown to be one of the largest and most dynamic areas in Victorian studies: in this collection, leading exponents in the field consider recent developments. The major figures and exact contemporaries, Charles Darwin and Alfred, Lord Tennyson are considered, in the company of John Ruskin, Thomas Huxley, Richard Owen, George Meredith, Oscar Wilde and others. Throughout, the stress is on the ways in which these writers read and were influenced by each other. Our current understanding of this complex cultural dialogue is illustrated here in a single accessible volume of essays by established scholars in this dynamic academic interdiscipline.

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Review Defrance, Sophie (2014) Review of "Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science". Library & Information History (pp. 139-140). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Ebbatson, Roger (2013) Tennyson's “Locksley Hall”: Progress and Destitution. In: Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (pp. 1-12). unapi

Chapter Stott, Rebecca (2013) “Tennyson's Drift”: Evolution in “The Princess”. In: Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (pp. 13-34). unapi

Chapter Rowlinson, Matthew (2013) History, Materiality and Type in Tennyson's “In Memoriam”. In: Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (pp. 35-48). unapi

Chapter Purton, Valerie (2013) Darwin, Tennyson and the Writing of “The Holy Grail”. In: Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (pp. 49-63). unapi

Chapter Nys, Michiel (2013) “An Undue Simplification”: Tennyson's Evolutionary Afterlife. In: Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (pp. 65-80). unapi

Chapter Dawson, Gowan (2013) “Like a Megatherium Smoking a Cigar”: Darwin's Beagle Fossils in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture. In: Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (pp. 81-96). unapi

Chapter Wilmer, Clive (2013) “No Such Thing as a Flower […] No Such Thing as a Man”: John Ruskin's Response to Darwin. In: Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (pp. 97-108). unapi

Chapter Levine, George (2013) Darwin and the Art of Paradox. In: Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (pp. 109-133). unapi

Chapter Beer, Gillian (2013) Systems and Extravagance: Darwin, Meredith, Tennyson. In: Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (pp. 135-151). unapi

Chapter Wallace, Jeff (2013) T. H. Huxley, Science and Cultural Agency. In: Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (pp. 153-166). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dawson, Gowan
Ryan, Robert M.
Sherrill, Matthew Robert
Pleins, J. David
Wilmer, Clive
Shearer, Emily Carroll
Concepts
Science and literature
Poetry and poetics
Evolution
Science and culture
Science and religion
Popular culture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Latin America
Institutions
Hunterian Museum (London)
Royal Society of London
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