“Nemesis without her mask”: heredity and the English novel in the nineteenth century

This dissertation explores the subject of heredity and its novelistic treatment c. 1850-1900. Though hereditary phenomena had long been incorporated into literary works, heredity acquired an unprecedented significance with Darwin’s theory of evolution. It became a central fact of life, generating bo...

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Main Author: Christensen, Andrew Gary
Other Authors: Brown, Julia P.
Language:en_US
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/31667