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The last of the race : the growth of a myth from Milton to Darwin

Author: Fiona J Stafford
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Fiona J Stafford
ISBN: 019811222X 9780198112228
OCLC Number: 29255910
Description: 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 'Betwixt the World destroyed and World restored': Milton and the Universal Rack -- The First Last Man? Thomas Burnet and the Revolution in Time -- Towards the Last of the Race: Robinson Crusoe as Sole Survivor -- The Last Bards -- 'Shortliv'd as foliage is the race of man': The last of the Race and the Natural World -- Strength in what remains behind': Wordsworth and the Last of the Race -- 'As the last of my race I must wither away': The Sixth Lord Byron -- The Last Men -- New Ideas of Race: The Last of the Mohicans -- Edward Bulwer and the 'Terror of History' -- The last Chapter: After Darwin.
Responsibility: Fiona J. Stafford.
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