Evolution and Victorian Culture

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.