16. Struggle and Strikes: The 'Survival of the Fittest' in Art and Literature
- Author
- Carly Farthing
- Published
- Mon 21 Sep 2009
- Episode Link
- http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/662775
Dame Gillian Beer discusses ideas of poverty, struggle and competition as explored in the painting 'On Strike' (1891), and examines how Darwinian notions of 'the survival of the fittest' also inspired female poets of the time.
