1. A Study of Evolutionary Theory in Victorian Science Fiction: Evolutionary Revolution and Natural Selection - There are not a few researches on Darwin's social and cultural impact upon the Victorian novels such as Charles Dickens's, George Eliot'...
1. A Study of Evolutionary Theory in Victorian Science Fiction: Evolutionary Revolution and Natural Selection - There are not a few researches on Darwin's social and cultural impact upon the Victorian novels such as Charles Dickens's, George Eliot's, and Thomas Hardy's as the writers reflected Darwinian elements into the relationship between the fictional characters and into the social and economic development of the human community portrayed in the novels. However, there are few academic papers interrogating the specific scientific elements of Darwin theory which were projected in the Victorian science fiction. In this paper, therefore, Darwinian concepts of natural selection and Lyell’s geological influence upon Darwin’s theory would be explored which can be found in the novels like Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and H. G. Wells' novellas. In the process of exploring the facts, moreover, we may recognize how the narrative in the stories made the matrix of stories associated with Darwin's theory and how much strong the social and cultural responses of the Victorians to the theory were. Even though some people agreed to the idea that evolution involves progress, others believed that evolution would bring them to degeneration. Nevertheless, no one denies that everythin