Evolution and Victorian Culture
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Evolution and Victorian Culture

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Evolution and Victorian Culture

About this book

In this collection of essays from leading scholars, the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture is explored for the first time, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences. Rather than focusing simply on evolution and literature or art, this volume brings together essays exploring the impact of evolutionary ideas on a wide range of cultural activities including painting, sculpture, dance, music, fiction, poetry, cinema, architecture, theatre, photography, museums, exhibitions and popular culture. Broad-ranging, rather than narrowly specialized, each chapter provides a brief introduction to key scholarship, a central section exploring original insights drawn from primary source material, and a conclusion offering overarching principles and a projection towards further areas of research. Each chapter covers the work of significant individuals and groups applying evolutionary theory to their particular art, both as theorists and practitioners. This comprehensive examination of topics sheds light on larger and previously unknown Victorian cultural patterns.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Table of contents
  7. List of illustrations
  8. List of contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter 1 Evolution and Victorian fiction
  12. Chapter 2 The challenge of evolution in Victorian poetry
  13. Chapter 3 Between specimen and imagination
  14. Chapter 4 Early cinema and evolution
  15. Chapter 5 Evolution and Victorian art
  16. Chapter 6 ‘I’m evolving!’
  17. Chapter 7 Dance and evolutionary thought in late Victorian discourse
  18. Chapter 8 The ‘non-Darwinian’ revolution and the Great Chain of Musical Being
  19. Chapter 9 Development and display
  20. Chapter 10 Dramas of development
  21. Chapter 11 The popularization of evolution and Victorian culture
  22. Index

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