Evolution and Victorian Culture
- Editor: Lightman, Bernard V.
- Editor: Zon, Bennett
Evolution and Victorian Culture
- Editor: Lightman, Bernard V.
- Editor: Zon, Bennett
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These essays examine the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences.
Contents
- Introduction Bernard V. Lightman and Bennett Zon;
- 1. Evolution and Victorian fiction Cannon Schmitt;
- 2. Poetry John Holmes;
- 3. Between specimen and imagination Elizabeth Edwards;
- 4. Early cinema and evolution Oliver Gaycken;
- 5. Evolution and Victorian arts Barbara Larson;
- 6. 'I'm evolving!': varieties of evolution on the Victorian stage Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr;
- 7. Dance and evolutionary thought in late Victorian discourse Theresa Jill Buckland;
- 8. The 'non-Darwinian' revolution and the Great Chain of Musical Being Bennett Zon;
- 9. Development and display: progressive evolution in British Victorian architecture and architectural theory Carla Yanni;
- 10. Dramas of development: exhibitions and evolution in Victorian Britain Sadiah Qureshi;
- 11. The popularization of evolution and Victorian culture Bernard V. Lightman.
