num_pages: 304
description: These two novellas, MORPHO EUGENIA and THE CONJUGIAL ANGEL, are set in the mid-nineteenth century, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance. MORPHO EUGENIA is a lively Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise, of the Victorian obsession with Darwinian theories of breeding and sexuality and the parallels between insect and human society. THE CONJUGIAL ANGEL, a philosophical ghost-story concerns Tennyson's IN MEMORIAM, published in 1850, mourning the death of his friend Arthur Hallam.
language: English
title: Angels And Insects
titlecomplete: Angels And Insects
genres: British Literature, Historical, Short Stories, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 5764
publisher: Random House UK