Darwin, Tennyson and their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science

Darwin, Tennyson and their Readers

Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science

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Edited by Valerie Purton

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: February 2014
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9780857280824

Series:: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
Subjects:: Sociology: General Interest, Sociology

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'Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science' is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. Darwin, Tennyson, Huxley, Ruskin, Richard Owen, Meredith, Wilde and other major writers are discussed, as established scholars in this area explore the interaction between Victorian literary and scientific figures which helped build the intellectual climate of twenty-first century debates.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Introduction
pp vii-xxii

Chapter 1 - Tennyson's ‘Locksley Hall’: Progress and Destitution
pp 1-12

Chapter 2 - ‘Tennyson's Drift’: Evolution in The Princess
pp 13-34

Chapter 3 - History, Materiality and Type in Tennyson's In Memoriam
pp 35-48

Chapter 4 - Darwin, Tennyson and the Writing of ‘The Holy Grail’
pp 49-64

Chapter 5 - ‘An Undue Simplification’: Tennyson's Evolutionary Afterlife
pp 65-80

Chapter 6 - ‘Like a Megatherium Smoking a Cigar’: Darwin's Beagle Fossils in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture
pp 81-96

Chapter 7 - ‘No Such Thing as a Flower […] No Such Thing as a Man’: John Ruskin's Response to Darwin
pp 97-108

Chapter 8 - Darwin and the Art of Paradox
pp 109-134

Chapter 9 - Systems and Extravagance: Darwin, Meredith, Tennyson
pp 135-152

Chapter 10 - T. H. Huxley, Science and Cultural Agency
pp 153-166

Notes on Contributors
pp 167-169

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