Giants of the Past: Popular Fictions and the Idea of Evolution

by Lisa Hopkins

Overview

Giants of the Past explores how ideas about evolution, initially seen as a major threat to the establishment of Victorian England, were rapidly co-opted in popular fiction and transformed from a revolutionary danger to a powerful bolstering mechanism for reactionary ideas, particularly in the areas of gender, sexuality, and race.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611482034
Publisher:	University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date:	06/01/2004
Pages:	201
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	7
	Introduction	11
1.	Monsters Under Domestication: Mary Elizabeth Braddon	38
2.	Into Africa: Rider Haggard and John Buchan	70
3.	Monsters and Mothers: Bram Stoker	105
4.	Lost Worlds: The Time Machine and Jurassic Park	143
	Conclusion	168
	Notes	170
	Works Cited	188
	Index	197