Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture
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Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture
Nature, Science and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination
Abberley, Will
Cambridge University Press
06/2020
308
Dura
Inglês
9781108477598
15 a 20 dias
610
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Introduction. Adaptive appearance in nineteenth-century culture; 1. Seeing things: art, nature and science in representations of crypsis; 2. Divine displays: Charles Kingsley, hermeneutic natural theology and the problem of adaptive appearance; 3. Criminal chameleons: the evolution of deceit in Grant Allen's fiction; 4. Darwin's little ironies: evolution and the ethics of appearance in Thomas Hardy's fiction; 5. Blending in and standing out I: crypsis versus individualism in fin-de-siecle cultural criticism; 6. Blending in and standing out II: mimicry, display and identity politics in the literary activism of Israel Zangwill and Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Conclusion. Adaptive appearance and cultural theory.
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evolution; animal; deception; vision; appearance; mimicry; camouflage; Victorian; literature; science
Introduction. Adaptive appearance in nineteenth-century culture; 1. Seeing things: art, nature and science in representations of crypsis; 2. Divine displays: Charles Kingsley, hermeneutic natural theology and the problem of adaptive appearance; 3. Criminal chameleons: the evolution of deceit in Grant Allen's fiction; 4. Darwin's little ironies: evolution and the ethics of appearance in Thomas Hardy's fiction; 5. Blending in and standing out I: crypsis versus individualism in fin-de-siecle cultural criticism; 6. Blending in and standing out II: mimicry, display and identity politics in the literary activism of Israel Zangwill and Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Conclusion. Adaptive appearance and cultural theory.
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