Giants of the Past: Popular Fictions and the Idea of Evolution

by Lisa Hopkins

Giants of the Past explores how ideas about evolution, initially seen as a major threat to the establishment of Victorian England, were rapidly co-opted in popular fiction and transformed from a revolutionary danger to a powerful bolstering mechanism for reactionary ideas, particularly in the areas of gender, sexuality, and race.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611482038
• ISBN13: 9781611482034
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 201 Pages