Mimicry And Display In Victorian Literary Culture (Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture, Series Number 123)

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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.

| Author: Will Abberley
| Publisher: Cambridge University Press
| Publication Date: Jun 22, 2023
| Number of Pages: 310 pages
| Language: English
| Binding: Paperback
| ISBN-10: 1108725767
| ISBN-13: 9781108725767

Author:: Will Abberley
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:: Jun 22, 2023
Number of pages:: 310 pages
Language:: English
Binding:: Paperback
ISBN-10:: 1108725767
ISBN-13:: 9781108725767

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