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The literary imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells : science, evolution, and ecology
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The literary imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells : science, evolution, and ecology

Author: Michael R Page
Publisher: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012.
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Page argues that Erasmus Darwin's call to 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science' began a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology and technological progress that would  Read more...

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Page, Michael R., 1967-
Literary imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells.
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012
(DLC) 2011040945
(OCoLC)757838242
Named Person: Charles Darwin
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Michael R Page
ISBN: 9781409438700 1409438708
OCLC Number: 775503587
Description: 1 online resource (viii, 224 p.)
Contents: Introduction --
"The banner of science": science and the nineteenth-century British --
Literary imagination --
"Beautiful and sublime images of the operations of nature": Erasmus Darwin --
"Mirrors of the gigantic shadows of futurity": Wordsworth and Shelley --
"A new species": Mary Shelley's science fiction novels --
"A tangled bank": Darwinian science fictions --
"Dim outlines on a desolate beach": H.G. Wells --
Conclusion: "Where do we go from her?".
Responsibility: Michael R. Page.
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'Michael R. Page's new book contributes to important literary discussions. By pointing to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Darwin's Origin of Species as foundational myths of modern culture, his Read more...

 
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