Extinction has never been a purely scientific concept. When theories of extinction exploded onto the Western intellectual scene in the early 19th ...

Benjamin Morgan
Benjamin Morgan is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago, where his research and teaching address intersections of science, literature, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain. His first book, The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature, will appear in May 2017 from the University of Chicago Press.