Charles Darwin's Looking Glass: The Theory of Evolution and the Life of its Author in Contemporary British Fiction and Non-Fiction

Contributor(s): Wilczynski, Marek (Other), Oramus, Dominika (Author)

ISBN: 9783631658703

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Hardcover

$57.55

Pub Date: May 31, 2015

Dewey: 820.9

LCCN: 2015015472

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.50" H x 8.30" L x 5.80" W ( 0.55 lbs) 150 pages

BISAC Categories:

Literary Criticism | English Irish Scottish Welsh | Social Science | Anthropology | General

Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: The book offers comparative analysis of diverse Darwinism-inspired discourses such as post-modern novels, science fiction, popular science and nature films. Special attention is paid to Darwin's problem with human ancestry, Darwinism and the humanities, and the lives of Charles and Emma Darwin as contemporary myths.