Evolution and imagination in Victorian children's literature /

"Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and none was so ardently embraced as the idea that children are animals recapitulating the ascent of the species. After Darwin's Origin of Species, scientific, pedagogical, and literary works featuring beastly babe...

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Main Author: Straley, Jessica L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 103.
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Online Access:CONNECT