What the Alligator didn't Know: Natural Selection and Love in Our Mutual Friend
This essay reads 'Our Mutual Friend' as Dickens’s rejoinder to Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, and sees it as a novel that is profoundly shaped by the imaginative impact of Darwin’s work. However, the direct influence of 'On the Origin of Species' is not the es...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2010-04-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
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| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/567 |