Giants of the Past explores how ideas about evolution, initially seen as a major threat to the establishment of Victorian England, were rapidly co-opted in popular fiction and transformed from a revolutionary danger to a powerful bolstering mechanism for reactionary ideas, particularly in the areas of gender, sexuality, and race.
- ISBN10 1611482038
- ISBN13 9781611482034
- Publish Date 1 August 2004 (first published 22 June 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bucknell University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 201
- Language English