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Feb 15, 2008 · The evolutionary complications which varieties of Darwinism introduce into the literary text is evidenced not only in Glendening's predictable exemplary texts but also in other works to which he refers more briefly— The Time-Machine, An Outcast of the Islands and Green Mansions.
- Roger Ebbatson
- 2007
Dec 21, 2012 · John Glendening. The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels: An Entangled Bank. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 225. $99.95 (cloth). Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2012.
In his exploration of late-Victorian fiction’s engagement with the complexities and confusions produced by Darwinism, John Glendening focuses on novels which critics have long acknowledged to be influenced by evolutionary theories: H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896); Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891); Bram ...
Mar 17, 2016 · Not only do they contend with evolutionary complications, John Glendening argues, but the complexities and entanglements of evolutionary theory, interacting with multiple cultural influences, thoroughly permeate the narrative, descriptive, and thematic fabric of each.
- John Glendening
- 2007
In Evolutionary Imagination John Glendening has brought together a collection of essays in which he explores the diverse and complex late Victorian anxieties about the social, moral and theological implications
Aug 27, 2002 · John Glendening. Article. Metrics. Get access Rights & Permissions. Extract. THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU (1896) is a richly confused novel, and its complexities and mixed agendas constitute one reason why this remarkable enactment of ideas and theories has received so much, and such varied, critical attention.
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Hybridity in The Moonstone. John Glendening. Wilkie Collins' s The Moonstone examines and enacts hybridity - an idea influentially theorized by a number of critics - through the many references to roses and their cultivation that appear throughout the novel.
