In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in
late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite
consciously sought and found ideas in post-Darwinian biology that
were susceptible to imaginative transformation. The period between
1860 and 1900 was a time of great confusion in biology; the natural
selection hypothesis was in retreat before its acute critics, and
no extension of evolutionary theory to human affairs was too
bizarre to attract its quota of enthusiasts. Writers capitalised on
this prevailing uncertainty and used it to their own artistic or
polemic ends. A fascinating and interdisciplinary title, this
reissue will interest students of late Victorian literature, as
well as historians of biological theory between The Origin of
Species and Mendel.
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