TABLE OF CONTENT
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Charles Darwin’s Looking Glass
1. The Voyages of Charles Darwin in Recent Fiction and Non-Fiction
2. History and Simulation in Thorvald Steen’s Don Carlos and Giovanni and Roger McDonald’s Mr. Darwin’s Shooter
3. Depictions of Emma Darwin in Recent British Non-Fiction
4. Recent Fiction about Charles Darwin: Peter Nichols, Henry Thompson and John Darnton
5. References to the Theory of Evolution in the Novels of John Fowles, A.S. Byatt, and Hilary Mantel
6. Echoes of the Mid-19th-Century Spiritual Crisis in Selected Contemporary Texts Referencing Charles Darwin
7. Darwin’s Problem with Human Ancestry as Reflected in Recent Fiction
8. Darwinism and the Humanities
9. The Motif of Human Evolution in Selected Fiction and Non-Fiction
10. Annie Dillard and Kurt Vonnegut on the Galapagos Archipelago as the Archetypal Darwinian Setting