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“An Undue Simplification”: Tennyson's Evolutionary Afterlife (2013)

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Description “This chapter analyses “Evolution and Ethics”, examining in particular the literary tests invoked by Huxley.”


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Authors & Contributors
Purton, Valerie
Beer, Gillian
Geric, Michelle
Gold, Barri J.
Henchman, Anna Alexandra
Holmes, John
Journals
Victorian Studies
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
ELH: English Literary History
Journal of the History of Ideas
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Victorian Literature and Culture
Publishers
Harvard University
University of Virginia
Anthem Press
Mimesis
Oxford University Press
Middle Tennessee State University
Concepts
Science and literature
Poetry and poetics
Science and ethics
Evolution
Science and religion
Vivisection
People
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Darwin, Charles Robert
Dickens, Charles
Eliot, George
Hardy, Thomas
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
England
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Royal Commission on Vivisection (1875)
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