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This article examines Mary Shelley's apocalyptic novel set in 2099 about the end of humanity as a species in light of Charles Darwin's work on extinction.
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This article demonstrates a link between similar ideas in nineteenth-century science and literature.
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This page is a summary of: The “grim Unreality”: Mary Shelley’s Extinction Narrative in The Last Man, Essays in Romanticism, October 2017, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/eir.2017.24.2.5.
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