Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture: Nature, Science and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination

by Will Abberley

Book Overview

Revealing the web of mutual influences between nineteenth-century scientific and cultural discourses of appearance, Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture argues that Victorian science and culture biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations. Exploring how studies of animal crypsis and visibility drew on artistic theory and techniques to reconceptualise nature as a realm of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108477593
• ISBN13: 9781108477598
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"