The Vital Science (Routledge Revivals): Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900

By Peter Morton

In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sought and found ideas in post-Darwinian biology that were susceptible to imaginative transformation. Writers capitalised on the prevailing uncertainty and used it to their own artistic or polemic ends. A fascinating and interdisciplinary title, this reissue will interest students of late Victorian literature, as well as historians of biological theory between The Origin of Species and Mendel.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138799246
• ISBN13: 9781138799240
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"