Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (Anthem Nineteenth-Century)

Valerie Purton (Editor)

$115.00

Publication Date: September 15th, 2013

Publisher:

Anthem Press

ISBN:

9780857280763

Pages:

192

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Description

'Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers' is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. The academic study of the interpenetration of Victorian literature and science has grown to be one of the largest and most dynamic areas in Victorian studies: in this collection, leading exponents in the field consider recent developments. The major figures and exact contemporaries, Charles Darwin and Alfred, Lord Tennyson are considered, in the company of John Ruskin, Thomas Huxley, Richard Owen, George Meredith, Oscar Wilde and others. Throughout, the stress is on the ways in which these writers read and were influenced by each other. Our current understanding of this complex cultural dialogue is illustrated here in a single accessible volume of essays by established scholars in this dynamic academic interdiscipline.

About the Author

Dr Valerie Purton is Professor of Victorian Literature at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.

Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (Anthem Nineteenth-Century)

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