Chapter ID: CBB001422075

“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
Trubowitz, Rachel
Mariaenrica Giannuzzi
Taylor, Jesse Oak
Jewusiak, Jacob
Wilmer, Clive
Journals
Victorian Studies
Zygon
Victorian Literature and Culture
Journal of the History of Ideas
ELH: English Literary History
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Publishers
Middle Tennessee State University
Oxford University Press
Mimesis
Anthem Press
University of Virginia
Harvard University
Concepts
Science and literature
Poetry and poetics
Evolution
Science and ethics
Science and religion
Extinction (biology)
People
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Darwin, Charles Robert
Ruskin, John
Meredith, George
Lyell, Charles
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
England
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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