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The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels - An Entangled Bank (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels - An Entangled Bank (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Dominated by Darwinism and the numerous guises it assumed,
evolutionary theory was a source of opportunities and difficulties
for late Victorian novelists. Texts produced by Wells, Hardy,
Stoker, and Conrad are exemplary in reflecting and participating in
these challenges. Not only do they contend with evolutionary
complications, John Glendening argues, but the complexities and
entanglements of evolutionary theory, interacting with multiple
cultural influences, thoroughly permeate the narrative,
descriptive, and thematic fabric of each. All the books Glendening
examines, from The Island of Doctor Moreau and Dracula to Heart of
Darkness, address the interrelationship between order and chaos
revealed and promoted by evolutionary thinking of the period.
Glendening's particular focus is on how Darwinism informs novels in
relation to a late Victorian culture that encouraged authors to
stress, not objective truths illuminated by Darwinism, but rather
the contingencies, uncertainties, and confusions generated by it
and other forms of evolutionary theory.
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