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100 1 $aMorton, Peter,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Vital Science :$bBiology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900 /$cPeter Morton.
264 1 $aOxon :$bRoutledge,$c2014.
300 $a1 online resource (272 pages)
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505 0 $aCover; 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.
505 8 $aEvolutionism 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.
505 8 $aLiterature 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn 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 pole.
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650 0 $aSocial Darwinism in literature.
650 6 $aLittérature anglaise$y19e siècle$xHistoire et critique.
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650 6 $aBiologie dans la littérature.
650 6 $aLittérature et sciences$zGrande-Bretagne$xHistoire$y19e siècle.
650 6 $aDarwinisme social dans la littérature.
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