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  1. Mimicry and display in Victorian literary culture
    nature, science and the nineteenth-century imagination
    Erschienen: 2020
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Introduction: adaptive appearance in nineteenth-century culture -- Seeing things: art, nature and science in representations of crypsis -- Divine Displays: Charles Kingsley, hermeneutic natural theology and the problem of adaptive appearance --... mehr

    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2020 A 2765
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
    Jc VI 20
    keine Fernleihe
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek
    2020/6957
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2020 A 11968
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Klassik Stiftung Weimar / Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
    HL 1101 A124
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    70.2697
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

     

    Introduction: adaptive appearance in nineteenth-century culture -- Seeing things: art, nature and science in representations of crypsis -- Divine Displays: Charles Kingsley, hermeneutic natural theology and the problem of adaptive appearance -- Criminal chameleons: the evolution of deceit in Grant Allen's fiction -- Darwin's little ironies: the ethics of appearance in Thomas Hardy's fiction -- Blending in and standing out I: crypsis versus individualism in Fin-Siècle cultural criticism -- Blending in and standing out II: mimicry, display and identity politics in the literary activism of Israel Zangwill and Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Conclusion: adaptive appearance and cultural theory. "Mimicry and Display reveals how Victorian science and culture biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations. The book argues that studies of animal crypsis and visibility drew on artistic theory and techniques to reconceptualise nature as a realm of signs and interpretation as much as hard facts. It contends that this science complicated religious views of nature as a text of divine meanings and inspired literary authors to rethink human appearances and perceptions through a Darwinian lens. The book discusses a wide range of writers, juxtaposing scientists such as Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace with the art critic John Ruskin. It traces a discourse of 'adaptive appearance' that generated new understandings of deception through the crime fiction of Grant Allen and pastoral narratives of Thomas Hardy. Mimicry and Display suggests that the biology of appearance reacted with notions of individualism and originality in the rhetoric of cultural critics such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde. It further shows how tropes of adaptive appearance infused representations of sexual and racial identity in the literary activism of Israel Zangwill and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The conclusion explores the implications of these findings for current discussions in cultural theory"--

     

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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel; Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781108477598; 9781108725767
    RVK Klassifikation: HL 1101
    Schriftenreihe: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 123
    Schlagworte: English literature; Literature and science; Imitation in literature; Nature in literature
    Umfang: vii, 293 Seiten, Illustrationen
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