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03650aam a2200433 i 4500 001 2A398ECC071E11E88A431B0A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180201010217 008 151130t20162016enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015041411 020 $a 1107127521 020 $a 9781107127524 035 $a (OCoLC)920446885 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d MYG $d COO $d NDD $d ZCU $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR990 $b .S77 2016 082 00 $a 820.9/9282 $2 23 084 $a LIT004120 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Straley, Jessica L., $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015087284 245 10 $a Evolution and imagination in Victorian children's literature / $c Jessica Straley. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xi, 252 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; $v 103 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-247) and index. 505 0 $a The child's view of nature: Margaret Gatty and the challenge to natural theology -- Amphibious tendencies: Charles Kingsley, Herbert Spencer, and evolutionary education -- Generic variability: Lewis Carroll, scientific nonsense, and literary parody -- The cure of the wild: Rudyard Kipling and evolutionary adolescence at home and abroad -- Home grown: Frances Hodgson Burnett and the cultivation of feminine evolution. 520 $a "Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and none was so ardently embraced as 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 murky course to humanity. Exploring fictions by Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Kingsley, and Margaret Gatty, Jessica Straley argues that Victorian children's literature not only adopted this new taxonomy of the animal child, but also suggested ways to complete his/her evolution. In the midst of debates about elementary education and the rising dominance of the sciences, children's authors plotted miniaturized evolutions for their protagonists and readers, and, more pointedly, proposed that the decisive evolutionary leap for both our ancestors and ourselves is the advent of the literary imagination"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Children's literature, English $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117663 650 0 $a Evolution (Biology) in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004133 650 0 $a Imagination in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98003297 650 7 $a Children's literature, English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00855967 650 7 $a Evolution (Biology) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00917331 650 7 $a Imagination in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00967604 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; $v 103. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93035018 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217023009.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2A398ECC071E11E88A431B0A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search