The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells: Science, Evolution, and Ecology

by Michael R. Page

Book Overview

Page argues that Erasmus Darwin's call to 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science' began a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology and technological progress that would extend from the Romantic through the Victorian periods. Examining a range of writers, including William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Charles Kingsley, Samuel Butler and W.H. Hudson, Page shows the synthesis of evolutionary science with the imagination, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113811040X
• ISBN13: 9781138110403
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"