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- catalog abstract "These two fascinating novellas, like A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, are set in the mid-nineteenth century, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance. "Morpho Eugenia" is a lively Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise, of the Victorian obsession with Darwinian theories of breeding and sexuality and the parallels between insect and human society - the capture and taming of nature, whether it be a young woman in a country house or a rare butterfly, gleaming in the forests of the Amazon. "The Conjugial Angel" concerns Tennyson's In Memoriam, published in 1850, mourning the death seventeen years before of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister Emily. A philosophical ghost story, bizarre, comic, and moving, in which fictive mediums meet "real" characters, it explores the contemporary preoccupation with God and life after death. Resonant, magical, entirely original, this is A. S. Byatt at her best.".
- catalog alternative "Angels and insects.".
- catalog contributor b4699444.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "Morpho Eugenia -- The conjugial angel.".
- catalog description "These two fascinating novellas, like A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, are set in the mid-nineteenth century, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance. "Morpho Eugenia" is a lively Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise, of the Victorian obsession with Darwinian theories of breeding and sexuality and the parallels between insect and human society - the capture and taming of nature, whether it be a young woman in a country house or a rare butterfly, gleaming in the forests of the Amazon. "The Conjugial Angel" concerns Tennyson's In Memoriam, published in 1850, mourning the death seventeen years before of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister Emily. A philosophical ghost story, bizarre, comic, and moving, in which fictive mediums meet "real" characters, it explores the contemporary preoccupation with God and life after death. Resonant, magical, entirely original, this is A. S. Byatt at her best.".
- catalog extent "339 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Angels & insects.".
- catalog identifier "0679405127 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Angels & insects.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
- catalog relation "Angels & insects.".
- catalog subject "823/.914 20".
- catalog subject "Evolution (Biology) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PR6052.Y2 A83 1992".
- catalog subject "Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. In memoriam Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Morpho Eugenia -- The conjugial angel.".
- catalog title "Angels & insects : two novellas / A.S. Byatt.".
- catalog title "Angels and insects.".
- catalog type "Ghost stories. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".