Evolution and imagination in Victorian children's literature
"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 babe...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, England :
Cambridge University Press
2016.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 103. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39818962*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
