Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture: Nature, Science and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1108477593
ISBN13:9781108477598
Release Date:July 2020
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:308 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
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