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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.
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.
The Diary of a Nobody, the spoof diary of Charles Pooter, a London
clerk, first appeared as a book in 1892 and has never been out of
print since. The hilariously trivial doings of the accident-prone
Pooter, his wife Carrie and their troublesome son Lupin have
inspired many writers since, including the authors of Bridget
Jones's Diary and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. The satirical
novelist Evelyn Waugh called it "the funniest book in the world."
This enduring classic of Victorian social comedy is now available
in a newly edited Broadview edition. This edition includes a
critical introduction, comprehensive notes on the many historical
allusions in the text, and a wide selection of relevant
contemporary materials on the clerk's life, suburbia, spiritualism,
and domestic economy. A selection of Weedon Grossmith's original
illustrations also accompanies the novel.
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