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Giants of the Past explores how ideas about evolution, initially seen as a major threat to the establishment of Victorian England, were rapidly co-opted in popular fiction and transformed from a revolutionary danger to a powerful bolstering mechanism for reactionary ideas, particularly in the areas of gender, sexuality, and race.

Giants of the Past: Popular Fictions and the Idea

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      Publisher: Bucknell University Press
      Publication Date: 01/06/2004
      ISBN13: 9781611482034, 978-1611482034
      ISBN10: 1611482038

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      Book Synopsis
      Giants of the Past explores how ideas about evolution, initially seen as a major threat to the establishment of Victorian England, were rapidly co-opted in popular fiction and transformed from a revolutionary danger to a powerful bolstering mechanism for reactionary ideas, particularly in the areas of gender, sexuality, and race.

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