Chapter One
Introduction: Strange Stories and the Descent of Mind
Chapter Two
Phylogeny Recapitulates Ontogeny: Fantastic Evolution and Fairy Science in The Water-Babies
Chapter Three
Developmental Nonsense in the Alice Tales
Chapter Four
Orality, Print, and Evolution in the Just So Stories
Chapter Five
Becoming Animal in The Island of Doctor Moreau
Chapter Six
The Machinate Literary Mammal: Samuel Butler’s Strange Stories
Chapter Seven
Exotic Geography, Natural Religion, and the Liberal Case against Eugenics in Flatland
Chapter Eight
Deep Time and the Socialist Utopia
Coda
Shallowing the Past
Biography
Anna Neill is Professor of English at the University of Kansas. She is the author of two other books: British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce (2003) and Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel (2013).
