Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Charles Darwin's Looking Glass -- The Voyages of Charles Darwin in Recent Fiction and Non-Fiction -- History and Simulation in Thorvald Steen's Don Carlos and Giovanni and Roger McDonald's "Mr. Darwin's Shooter" -- Depictions of Emma Darwin in Recent British Non-Fiction -- Recent Fiction about Charles Darwin: Peter Nichols, Harry Thompson, and John Darnton -- References to the Theory of Evolution in the Novels of John Fowles, A.S. Byatt, and Hilary Mantel -- Echoes of the Mid-19th-Century Spiritual Crisis in Selected Contemporary Texts Referencing Charles Darwin -- Darwin's Problem with Human Ancestry as Reflected in Recent Fiction -- Darwinism and the Humanities -- The Motif of Human Evolution in Selected Fiction and Non-Fiction -- Annie Dillard and Kurt Vonnegut on the Galapagos Archipelago as the Archetypal Darwinian Setting -- References.