Artificial Creation and Procreation in Late-Victorian Short Fiction KU Leuven
This thesis investigates the connections between creativity and childbirth in fin-de-siècle short fiction. It questions how late-Victorian perceptions of gender, sexuality, science, and art informed the fashion in which artificial and biological creation were represented in the literature of the time. The corpus under consideration includes short stories and novellas by H. G. Wells, R. L. Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Machen, Oscar ...