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  1. The literary imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells
    science, evolution, and ecology
    Author: Page, Michael R.
    Published: ©2012
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, England

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781409438700; 1409438708; 9781409438694; 1409438694
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literature and science; Science in literature; Geschichte; English literature; Literature and science; Science in literature; Evolutionstheorie; Naturwissenschaften; Englisch; Ökologie; Literatur
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 224 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index

    Introduction -- "The banner of science": science and the nineteenth-century British -- Literary imagination -- "Beautiful and sublime images of the operations of nature": Erasmus Darwin -- "Mirrors of the gigantic shadows of futurity": Wordsworth and Shelley -- "A new species": Mary Shelley's science fiction novels -- "A tangled bank": Darwinian science fictions -- "Dim outlines on a desolate beach": H.G. Wells -- Conclusion: "Where do we go from here?"