The literary imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells
Subtitle: science, evolution, and ecology
By: by Michael R. Page
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409438694; 9781409438700
Subjects: English literature; Literature and science; History and criticism; Influence; Science in literature; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "The banner of science": science and the nineteenth-century British; title: Literary imagination; title: "Beautiful and sublime images of the operations of nature": Erasmus Darwin; title: "Mirrors of the gigantic shadows of futurity": Wordsworth and Shelley; title: "A new species": Mary Shelley's science fiction novels; title: "A tangled bank": Darwinian science fictions; title: "Dim outlines on a desolate beach": H.G. Wells; title: Conclusion: "Where do we go from her?".