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

Автор: Page
Название: The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells
ISBN: 113811040X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138110403
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Описание: At the close of the eighteenth century, Erasmus Darwin declared that he would 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science, ' beginning, Michael Page argues, a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology, and technological progress that would extend from the Romantic through the Victorian periods. Examining the interchange between emerging scientific ideas-specifically evolution and ecology-new technologies, and literature in nineteenth-century Britain, Page shows how British writers from Darwin to H.G. Wells confronted the burgeoning expansion of scientific knowledge that was radically redefining human understanding and experience of the natural world, of human species, and of the self. The wide range of authors covered in Page's ambitious study permits him to explore an impressive array of topics that include the role of the Romantic era in the molding of scientific and cultural perspectives; the engagement of William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley with questions raised by contemporary science; Mary Shelley's conflicted views on the unfolding prospects of modernity; and how Victorian writers like Charles Kingsley, Samuel Butler, and W.H. Hudson responded to the implications of evolutionary theory. Page concludes with the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, to demonstrate how evolutionary fantasies reached the pinnacle of synthesis between evolutionary science and the imagination at the close of the century

Автор: Darwin
Название: Charles Darwin`s `The Life of Erasmus Darwin`
ISBN: 0521298741 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521298742
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Originally published in 2003, this first unabridged edition of The Life of Erasmus Darwin, edited by Desmond King-Hele, includes all that Charles originally intended, the cuts being restored and printed in italics. It gives a lively portrait of Erasmus, whom many people consider to be just as distinguished as Charles.

Автор: Straley
Название: Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children`s Literature
ISBN: 1107127521 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107127524
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: An original and wide-ranging study that examines the convergence of evolutionary theory, educational reform, and Victorian children`s literature. It includes discussions of evolutionary ideas underpinning the work of Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Автор: Abberley
Название: English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850–1914
ISBN: 1107101166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107101166
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Описание: Will Abberley explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, providing a new, historical angle on current debates about language evolution and the language of science. Abberley offers fresh perspectives on authors including Thomas Hardy and H. G. Wells, and genres including utopian, historical and science fiction.

Автор: Fabienne Collignon
Название: Rocket States: Atomic Weaponry and the Cultural Imagination
ISBN: 1501317652 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501317651
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Rocket States crosses the disciplines of Cold War Studies, American Literature, American Studies and Cultural Studies. The particular attraction of this study lies in the combination of its range—close textual and visual analysis of the correlations between land and weaponry, set firmly within its political and cultural contexts—with its unique analytical approach. The book offers a synthesis between history, theories of technology, theories of space, popular culture, literary study and military science. It illuminates a variety of literary texts from key writers and thinkers such as Pynchon, Stephen King, Norman Mailer, and Tom Wolfe, while also invoking figures like Nikola Tesla, James Webb, Batman and Ronald Reagan. Organised topographically, according to how missile technology manifests itself differently in particular locations, Rocket States's geographical targets are Colorado, Kansas, Cape Canaveral and New York, variously titled 'Excavation', 'Preservation', 'Evacuation' and 'Transmission'. It advances through these states roughly chronologically, beginning in the late 1940s and early 1950s and coming to an end in the first part of the 21st century. Collignon's argument is concerned with identifying the recurring figures and fantasies of the Cold War: the dome or parabola as sheltering techno-form; the fictions of total security adapting to constantly changing targeting strategies; gadget love; closed, freezing worlds. As such, Rocket States analyses by what processes the Cold War is frequently literalised in its weapons installations and how these facilities, in turn, shape dreams of containment, survival, escape and techno-supremacy.

Автор: Darwin
Название: Darwin and Women
ISBN: 1107158869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107158863
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Описание: Darwin and Women focusses on the correspondence between Darwin and female family members and professional colleagues. Including correspondence between the women themselves, the book showcases many previously unpublished letters, arranged in thematic chapters that provide new insight on women`s role in nineteenth-century science.

Автор: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam The Netherlands
Название: The Nuclear Age in Popular Media
ISBN: 1349343641 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349343645
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book compares representations of nuclear power in popular media from around the world to to trace divergences, convergences, and exchanges.