Fire in the Stone : Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel /
The genre of prehistoric fiction contains a surprisingly large and diverse group of fictional works by American, British, and French writers from the late nineteenth century to the present that describe prehistoric humans. Nicholas Ruddick explains why prehistoric fiction could not come into being u...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Middletown, Conn. :
Wesleyan University Press,
2009.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Generic evolution. From Boitard's Paris before man to London's Before Adam ; From Rosny's First artist to del Rey's last neanderthal ; From Fisher's "Testament of man" to Auel's "Earth's children"
- Thematic evolution. Nature and human nature ; Sex and gender ; Race or the human race ; A cultural triad : language, religion, art.