Will Abberley Bücher

Throwing new light on how Victorians conceptualized identity, deception, originality and the relations between sciences and the arts, Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture offers fresh angles on canonical authors and texts. It will appeal to scholars and students of literature and history, and general readers interested in cultural history and history of science.

Will Abberley explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, providing a new, historical angle on current debates about language evolution and the language of science. Abberley offers fresh perspectives on authors including Thomas Hardy and H. G. Wells, and genres including utopian, historical and science fiction.