Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel

by Anna Neill

Book Overview

For twenty-first-century veterans of the evolution culture wars, Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel, by Anna Neill, makes unlikely bedfellows of two Victorian "discoveries" evolutionary theory and spiritualism. Victorian science did much to uncover the physical substratum of mystical or dreamy experience, tracing spiritual states to a lower, reflex, or more evolutionarily primitive stage of consciousness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081425408X
• ISBN13: 9780814254080
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"