Romanticism and the Triumph of Life Science: Prospects for Study

Romantic Evolutions: Introduction

“…Huxley, and Herbert Spencer, or writers like Dickens, Hardy, and Eliot. But as Hermione de Almeida argues, “no such comparable inquiry or sustained interest exists for the romantic era and its literature,” nor are there “broadly disciplinary studies connecting evolutionary issues shared between the two periods that romantic literary scholars may draw upon” (131). This volume aims to provoke such a reimagination of our current understanding of the Romantic conception of evolution, one that will open new critical perspectives and orientations for scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries across the disciplines.…”