Introduction: adaptive appearance in nineteenth-century culture
Seeing things: art, nature and science in representations of crypsis
Divine Displays: Charles Kingsley, hermeneutic natural theology and the problem of adaptive appearance
Criminal chameleons: the evolution of deceit in Grant Allen's fiction
Darwin's little ironies: the ethics of appearance in Thomas Hardy's fiction
Blending in and standing out I: crypsis versus individualism in Fin-Siècle cultural criticism
Blending in and standing out II: mimicry, display and identity politics in the literary activism of Israel Zangwill and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Conclusion: adaptive appearance and cultural theory.