Neo-Victorian Darwin: representations of the nineteenth-century scientist, naturalist and explorer in twenty-first century women's writing
- Submitting institution
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Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 97088717
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- Reflecting on Darwin
- Publisher
- Ashgate
- ISBN
- 9781472414076
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Two pages (pp.95-97) summarising the pre-Darwinian concept of the Chain of Being, the factual Baartman’s sexual-racial history of abuse and the novel’s plot relate to (more extended) discussion in Neo-Victorianism (2010, pp.120-31). The main argument in this output’s Baartman section draws on new material (Chase-Riboud’s ‘Africa Rising’, Spencer interview, Miranda and Spencer, Ashraf Rushdy, Slamisha Tillet) and pays more focused attention to the representation of Darwin in the text, placing him in the context of the 19th-century conflict between polygenist and monogenist approaches and problematizing his monogenist credentials with reference to the ‘slave-making instinct’ he identified in an ant species.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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