The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells

Download or read book The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells written by Michael R. Page and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Page argues that Erasmus Darwin's call to 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science' began a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology and technological progress that would extend from the Romantic through the Victorian periods. Examining a range of writers, including William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Charles Kingsley, Samuel Butler and W.H. Hudson, Page shows the synthesis of evolutionary science with the imagination, which reached its pinnacle with the romances of H.G. Wells.