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Choo, Jae-uk. “A Study on Hybrid Body of Human Being and His Identity in Victorian Science Fiction.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 38.4 (2012): 171-195. The hybridity can be regarded as the result of a sort of natural selection, mutation, and adaptation. The phenomena will be well explicated by analyzing Victorian Novels. Many cultural, social, and religious registers of the Victorian society were subtly inscribed into the hybridly evolved bodies of various forms: half human and half animals. A variety of hybrid phenomena between animal, human, machine, and others appear in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and The Beach of Falesá: Being the Narrative of a South Sea Trader (1893). On the bottom of the works is the influence of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory. In this context, this paper focuses on the birth of the ‘hybrid’ concept in the Victorian era, and reviews the way that the concept had been associated with science, nature, and race in the same period. (Chung-Ang University)