{"product_id":"charles-darwin-s-looking-glass-the-theory-of-evolution-and-the-life-of-its-author-in-contemporary-british-fiction-and-non-fiction-9783631658703","title":"Charles Darwin’s Looking Glass: The Theory of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book offers a comparative analysis of diverse Darwinism-inspired discourses such as post-modern novels, science fiction, popular science and nature films. Analysing the uses of the evolutionary discourse in recent literature and films, the study demonstrates how natural science influences the contemporary humanities and how literary conventions are used to make scientific and popular-science texts intelligible and attractive. \u003ci\u003eCharles Darwin’s Looking Glass\u003c\/i\u003e shows how and why today’s culture gazes upon the myth of Darwin, his theory, and his life in order to find its own reflection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Recent Fiction and Non-Fiction about Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin – Echoes of the Mid-19th-Century Spiritual Crisis and the Motif of Human Evolution in Contemporary Texts referencing Charles Darwin – Darwin’s Problem with Human Ancestry as Reflected in Recent Fiction – Darwinism and the Humanities.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044296229207,"sku":"9783631658703","price":33.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/charles-darwin-s-looking-glass-the-theory-of-evolution-and-the-life-of-its-author-in-contemporary-british-fiction-and-non-fiction-9783631658703","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}