Article
Comparative Anatomies: Darwin, Eliot, Stevenson and the Lamarckian Legacy of 1820s Edinburgh
Faculty Publications
Publication Date
1-1-1999
Document Type
Paper
Subject Area(s)
Victorian literature; Victorian science
Disciplines
Abstract
Explores the ways in which selected Victorian writers critiqued, repressed, or caricatured the underground influence of the earlier French biological theorist Lamarck. Works discussed include George Eliot's Middlemarch and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. First presented at the Sixth International Scott Conference, Eugene, Oregon, 1999.
Rights
(c) Patrick Scott, 1999
Citation Information
Patrick G. Scott. "Comparative Anatomies: Darwin, Eliot, Stevenson and the Lamarckian Legacy of 1820s Edinburgh" (1999) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/patrick_scott/254/