The following paper examines how Charles Darwin's discoveries had a substantial effect on the writers of his age. This paper
discusses literature of the Victorian age focusing on the importance of the senses, when reading books from this era. The writer
discusses the ways in which important authors of this era were fascinated by the ways in which their characters and themselves were linked to the
world through the use of their senses and that sensory information could be counted upon to be reliable in a way that few other things might be in a world in so much flux.