The literary imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells science, evolution, and ecology /
| Основен автор: | Page, Michael R., 1967- |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. :
Ashgate,
c2012.
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An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
Съдържание:
- Introduction
- "The banner of science": science and the nineteenth-century British
- Literary imagination
- "Beautiful and sublime images of the operations of nature": Erasmus Darwin
- "Mirrors of the gigantic shadows of futurity": Wordsworth and Shelley
- "A new species": Mary Shelley's science fiction novels
- "A tangled bank": Darwinian science fictions
- "Dim outlines on a desolate beach": H.G. Wells
- Conclusion: "Where do we go from her?".