Angels & insects

About “Angels & insects”

Morpho Eugenia is a Gothic fable set in the mid-nineteenth century that explores Victorian interests in Darwinian theories of breeding and sexuality, drawing parallels between insect and human society through the story of a rare butterfly and a young woman in a country house. "The Conjugial Angel" is a philosophical ghost story that engages with Tennyson's In Memoriam, published in 1850, examining contemporary preoccupations with God and life after death through interactions between fictive mediums and "real" characters.