This paper seeks to examine the ways in which the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin (1809-1... more This paper seeks to examine the ways in which the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) were received, transmitted and transmuted in fictional texts composed in England after 1859, the year On the Origin of Species was published. It will do so by focussing on three interrelated characteristics/notions found in Origin, namely, the inductive method, progress and its obverse, and ecological interconnectedness. The authors whose works will be looked at will include Charles Dickens (1812-1870), William Morris (1834-1896), Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), Richard Marsh (1857-1915), and Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Reference will also be made to other works by Darwin, chiefly The Descent of Man (1871) and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), as also to other contemporary commentators on Darwin and his ideas.
This paper seeks to examine the ways in which the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin (1809-1... more This paper seeks to examine the ways in which the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) were received, transmitted and transmuted in fictional texts composed in England after 1859, the year On the Origin of Species was published. It will do so by focussing on three interrelated characteristics/notions found in Origin, namely, the inductive method, progress and its obverse, and ecological interconnectedness. The authors whose works will be looked at will include Charles Dickens (1812-1870), William Morris (1834-1896), Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), Richard Marsh (1857-1915), and Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Reference will also be made to other works by Darwin, chiefly The Descent of Man (1871) and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), as also to other contemporary commentators on Darwin and his ideas.
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It will do so by focussing on three interrelated characteristics/notions found in Origin, namely, the inductive method, progress and its obverse, and ecological interconnectedness.
The authors whose works will be looked at will include Charles Dickens (1812-1870), William Morris (1834-1896), Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), Richard Marsh (1857-1915), and Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Reference will also be made to other works by Darwin, chiefly The Descent of Man (1871) and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), as also to other contemporary commentators on Darwin and his ideas.
It will do so by focussing on three interrelated characteristics/notions found in Origin, namely, the inductive method, progress and its obverse, and ecological interconnectedness.
The authors whose works will be looked at will include Charles Dickens (1812-1870), William Morris (1834-1896), Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), Richard Marsh (1857-1915), and Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Reference will also be made to other works by Darwin, chiefly The Descent of Man (1871) and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), as also to other contemporary commentators on Darwin and his ideas.