Giants of the Past Popular Fictions and the Idea of Evolution
, by Hopkins, Lisa- ISBN: 9781611482034 | 1611482038
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 6/1/2004
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.