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Giants of the Past
Lisa Hopkins
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Description for Giants of the Past
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 201 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 481.
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 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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
Number of Pages
201
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482034
SKU
V9781611482034
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
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