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The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells - Science, Evolution, and Ecology (Paperback)
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The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells - Science, Evolution, and Ecology (Paperback)
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At the close of the eighteenth century, Erasmus Darwin declared
that he would 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science,'
beginning, Michael Page argues, a literary narrative on questions
of evolution, ecology, and technological progress that would extend
from the Romantic through the Victorian periods. Examining the
interchange between emerging scientific ideas-specifically
evolution and ecology-new technologies, and literature in
nineteenth-century Britain, Page shows how British writers from
Darwin to H.G. Wells confronted the burgeoning expansion of
scientific knowledge that was radically redefining human
understanding and experience of the natural world, of human
species, and of the self. The wide range of authors covered in
Page's ambitious study permits him to explore an impressive array
of topics that include the role of the Romantic era in the molding
of scientific and cultural perspectives; the engagement of William
Wordsworth and Percy Shelley with questions raised by contemporary
science; Mary Shelley's conflicted views on the unfolding prospects
of modernity; and how Victorian writers like Charles Kingsley,
Samuel Butler, and W.H. Hudson responded to the implications of
evolutionary theory. Page concludes with the scientific romances of
H.G. Wells, to demonstrate how evolutionary fantasies reached the
pinnacle of synthesis between evolutionary science and the
imagination at the close of the century.
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