Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.

"Documenting a nineteenth-century crisis in the species concept, Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy is a literary as well as a scientific project."--

Magazines and periodicals played a far greater role than books in influencing the Victorians' understanding of the new discoveries and theories in science, tech

Reimagining Dinosaurs argues that transatlantic popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a cultural icon between 1880 and 1920

Consulting a diverse archive of literary texts, Colleen Glenney Boggs places animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject.