Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-164) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Strange stories and the descent of mind -- Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny : fantastic evolution and fairy science in The water-babies -- Developmental nonsense in the Alice tales -- Orality, print, and evolution in the Just so stories -- Becoming animal in The island of Doctor Moreau -- The machinate literary mammal : Samuel Butler's strange stories -- Exotic geography, natural religion, and the liberal case against eugenics in Flatland -- Deep time and the socialist utopia -- Coda: Shallowing the past.
Summary:
"This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions -utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children's fables- as responses to Darwinian anthropology after 1860"--Provided by publisher.
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