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.
| ISBN: | 9781611482034 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 2004 |
| Author: | Lisa Hopkins |
| Publisher: | Bucknell University Press an imprint of University Press Copublishing Division |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 201 pages |
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Literary reference works |