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Mimicry And Display In Victorian Literary Culture Will Abberley

Name: Mimicry And Display In Victorian Literary Culture Will Abberley
SKU: BELL-43533964
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 4.03 MB

Pages: 310

Author: Will Abberley

ISBN: 9781108477598, 1108477593

Language: English

Year: 2020

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Mimicry And Display In Victorian Literary Culture Will Abberley by Will Abberley 9781108477598, 1108477593 instant download after payment.

The book reveals how Victorians biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations.
Revealing the web of mutual influences between nineteenth-century
scientific and cultural discourses of appearance, Mimicry and Display in
Victorian Literary Culture argues that Victorian science and culture
biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and
self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations. Exploring how studies of
animal crypsis and visibility drew on artistic theory and techniques to
reconceptualise nature as a realm of signs and interpretation, Abberley
shows that in turn, this science complicated religious views of nature
as a text of divine meanings, inspiring literary authors to rethink
human appearances and perceptions through a Darwinian lens. Providing
fresh insights into writers from Alfred Russel Wallace and Thomas Hardy
to Oscar Wilde and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Abberley reveals how the
biology of appearance generated new understandings of deception,
identity and creativity; reacted upon narrative forms such as crime
fiction and the pastoral; and infused the rhetoric of cultural criticism
and political activism.
Will Abberley is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the
University of Sussex. His other books are English Fiction and the
Evolution of Language 1850–1914 (2015) and Underwater Worlds: Submerged
Visions in Science and Culture (2018). He is a BBC New Generation
Thinker and Philip Leverhulme Prize recipient.