Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature
«'Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature is a highly detailed book about British 19th-century children's literature and the impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory … The book is intended for historians, literary scholars, teachers and students of literature, as well as curious enthusiasts who would like to expand their knowledge of fascinating social changes in the Victorian era.' Helena Horžiæ, Libri and Liberi»
Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animals recapitulating the ascent of the species. After Darwin's Origin of Species, scientific, pedagogical, and literary works featuring beastly babes and wild children interrogated how our ancestors evolved and what children must do in order to repeat this course to humanity. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cambridge University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781107566811
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«'Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature is a highly detailed book about British 19th-century children's literature and the impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory … The book is intended for historians, literary scholars, teachers and students of literature, as well as curious enthusiasts who would like to expand their knowledge of fascinating social changes in the Victorian era.' Helena Horžiæ, Libri and Liberi»
«'Her insightful discussions of some of the most important writers of the Golden Age of children's literature in the context of developments in science and the British educational system leave us in no doubt as to the veracity of this statement; the greatest evolutionary leap for both the authors and for us is the arrival of the literary imagination.' Jane M. Ekstam, English Studies»