Overview
" During the last decades of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Walter Pater and others changed the nature of thought concerning the human body and the physical environment that had shaped it. In response, the 1890s saw the publication of a series of remarkable literary works that had their genesis in the intense scientific and aesthetic activity of those preceding decades-texts that emphasized themes of degeneration and were themselves stylistically decompositive, with
- | Author: Susan Jennifer Navarette
- | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- | Publication Date: Dec 24, 1997
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0813120136
- | ISBN-13: 9780813120133
