The Vital Science : Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900

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The Vital Science : Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900

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Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900

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• The Vital Science : Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900

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• Oxon, Routledge, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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• Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Definitions and Perspectives; Darwin's Literary Impact: The Dominant View; Final Definitions and Limitations; 1 Darwinism on the Deathbed, 1870-1900: The Failings of Natural Selection; Darwinism in Decay, 1870-1900; Anti-Darwinian Thought Concluded; 2 Victorian Biology and Victorian Letters: An Overview; Biology and Letters: Some Specific Linkages; 3 Better, Wiser, and More Beautiful Beings: The Cheerful Doctrine of Evolutionism
• Evolutionism as Credo: Spencer, Reade and DrummondW. H. Hudson and A Crystal Age; The Cost of Evolutionary Perfection; 4 Laying the Ghost of the Brute: The Fear of Degeneration; The Victorians' Parochial Future; The Darwinists and Degeneration; Is Degeneration Really Perfection?; Degeneration and the Utopia; The Biological Vision of H.G. Wells; The Time Machine: Social or Biological Allegory?; The Time Machine and the Garden Metaphor; Wells's Controlled 'Inductive Future'; 5 Remember, Beethoven's Father Was a Drunkard: The Dubious Appeal of Eugenics; Late-Victorian Eugenics: An Overview
• Literature and Galtonian EugenicsReformist Eugenics: Wallace and Grant Allen; Eugenics and Prevailing Theories of Inheritance; 6 Nemesis without Her Mask: Heredity before Mendel; Butler on Heredity; Butlerism and Mainstream Biology; Weismann and the Germ Plasm; 7 This Body Is an Omnibus: The Motif of Heredity in The Way of All Flesh and Tess of the d'Urbervilles; Butler's Roles as Biological Theorist and Novelist Compared; The Way of All Flesh as a Lamarckian Novel of Inheritance; Butler and Heredity Summarised; Tess and the Darwinian Motif; Hardy, Tess and August Weismann; Conclusion

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1 online resource (272 pages)

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9781138799240

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• (OCoLC)886110810
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