The Beast Within: H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and human evolution in the mid-1890s
H.G. Wells' novels The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau were both concerned with the evolutionary destiny of mankind and what it meant to be human, both important areas of discussion for Victorian natural science in the 1890s. In this essay I set these two works in their broader sci...
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