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HEREDITY IN TESS OF THE d'URBERVILLES
DESCRIPTION:
Address: http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/english/VScience/VS_Contents.htm
Contact: Peter Morton (peter.morton@flinders.edu.au)
Date: 07/01/04
Peter Morton is Senior Lecturer in English at Flinders University
of South Australia. He is the author of The Vital Science:
Biology and the Literary Imagination 1860-1900 (London:
Allen and Unwin,1984). This page provides the text of that book, Chapter 7 of which is titled, "The Body is an Omnibus: The Motif of Heredity in The Way of All Flesh and Tess of the d'Urbervilles." Also provided is an extensive bibliography on Darwinism and literature.
COMMENT:
A valuable documented study of the impact of Victorian theories of heredity on Butler and Hardy.