The literary imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells

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Michael R. Page, Michael R. Pa...
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The literary imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells

science, evolution, and ecology

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Publisher
Ashgate
Language
English

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Table of 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?".

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
Farnham, England, Burlington, VT

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/3609034
Library of Congress
PR468.S34 P34 2012, PR468.S34, PR468.S34 P34 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25078310M
ISBN 13
9781409438694, 9781409438700
LCCN
2011040945
OCLC/WorldCat
757838242, 948602990

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16215414W

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