Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture Nature, Science and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination
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Will Abberley is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Sussex. His other books are English Fiction and the Evolution of Language 1850–1914 (2015) and Underwater Worlds: Submerged Visions in Science and Culture (2018). He is a BBC New Generation Thinker and Philip Leverhulme Prize recipient.'Mimicry and Display does something rather wonderful: while you'll read Victorian and Edwardian literature from a new perspective, you'll also never see nature in quite the same way again.' Catherine Charlwood, British Association for Victorian Studies Newsletter
'This volume provides a cultural history of crypsis, an evolutionary phenomenon in which organisms protect themselves by modifying their appearance to hide within an environment or copy the features of more dominant organisms. Recommended.' M. C. Cohen, Choice
'Mimicry and Display fits nicely within the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series, which has done so much to expand the range of high-quality scholarship on topics related to science and nature, technology, environment, and medicine. The chapters on Allen, Hardy, and late-century cultural criticism are especially good, and the book displays how widely and deeply scientific accounts of mimicry and camouflage in the natural world reverberated through Victorian literary culture.' Jonathan Smith, Victorian Studies