Giants of the past : popular fictions and the idea of evolution
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Giants of the past : popular fictions and the idea of evolution
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The work Giants of the past : popular fictions and the idea of evolution represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Giants of the past : popular fictions and the idea of evolution
- Title remainder
- popular fictions and the idea of evolution
- Statement of responsibility
- Lisa Hopkins
- Subject
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- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Evolution (Biology) in literature
- Evolution in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "This book considers the ways in which the idea of evolution has been used in popular fiction, focusing mainly on novels of the Victorian and Edwardian periods but also including a closing section on Steven Spielberg's first two Jurassic Park films. The book's overall argument is that in many of these texts the version of origins proffered by Darwinian theory is suggestively played off against both the version of human origins offered by Milton (and, the book suggests, implicitly supported by Shakespeare) and the version of national origins offered by Virgil and by the myth of Brutus, legendary grandson of Aeneas and supposed first founder of Britain
- Nevertheless, although these novels tend to give such prominence to alternatives to Darwinian theory, they are also very ready to draw on any aspects of it which will lend support to their own agendas, especially when it comes to drawing sharp distinctions between races and sexes. Although Darwinian theory posed challenges to contemporary orthodoxies and pieties, it could thus also be used in the support of some of them."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 823/.80936
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR830.E95
- LC item number
- H67 2004
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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