Lives of the Monster Plants:The Revenge of the Vegetable in the Age of Animal Studies.
This paper argues for a specifically Darwinian etiology of the image of the monstrous plant, so ubiquitous in the modern genres of speculative fiction. In the profusion of such narratives in the late 19th century, we can identify a collective anxiety about the implications of universal common descen...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 460 - 480 |
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International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
2012
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