Introduction: Strange stories and the descent of mind -- Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny : fantastic evolution and fairy science in The water-babies -- Developmental nonsense in the Alice tales -- Orality, print, and evolution in the Just so stories -- Becoming animal in The is…
Introduction: Strange stories and the descent of mind -- Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny : fantastic evolution and fairy science in The water-babies -- Developmental nonsense in the Alice tales -- Orality, print, and evolution in the Just so stories -- Becoming animal in The is…
"This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions -utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children's fables- as responses to Darwinian anthropology after 1860"--
"This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions -utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children's fables- as responses to Darwinian anthropology after 1860"--
Following the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Victorian anthropology made two apparently contradictory claims: it distinguished "civilized man" from animals and "primitive" humans and it linked them though descent. Paradoxically, it was by placing human history…