And Insects: Angels

The Books: “Angels and Insects” – 'Morpho Eugenia' (A.S. Byatt)

The collection is composed of two distinct stories that are peripherally connected: Angels and Insects

: Set against the backdrop of Victorian spiritualism, this "philosophical ghost story" follows a group of mediums attempting to contact the deceased, specifically the poet Arthur Hallam, the subject of Tennyson’s In Memoriam . The Books: “Angels and Insects” – 'Morpho Eugenia' (A

: This story follows William Adamson, a naturalist who returns from the Amazon and marries into an aristocratic family. He soon begins to see alarming parallels between the rigid, sometimes dark social behaviors of the humans around him and the insects he studies. specifically the poet Arthur Hallam