Prehistoric heroes in Victorian fiction : the antiquity of man and the evolutionary human
This thesis examines the cultural and literary impact of the establishment of the ‘antiquity of man’, or the discovery of human remains in geological association with those of extinct mammals. This mid-nineteenth-century scientific development greatly extended the length of human (pre)history and, w...
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University of Strathclyde
2016
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.698554 |