After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-420-3747-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 93, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

‘What is emotion?’ pondered the young Charles Darwin in his notebooks. How were the emotions to be placed in an evolutionary framework? And what light might they shed on human-animal continuities? These were among the questions Darwin explored in his research, assisted both by an acute sense of observation and an extraordinary capacity for fellow feeling, not only with humans but with all animal life. After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind explores questions of mind, emotion and the moral sense which Darwin opened up through his research on the physical expression of emotions and the human–animal relation. It also examines the extent to which Darwin’s ideas were taken up by Victorian writers and popular culture, from George Eliot to the Daily News. Bringing together scholars from biology, literature, history, psychology, psychiatry and paediatrics, the volume provides an invaluable reassessment of Darwin’s contribution to a new understanding of the moral sense and emotional life, and considers the urgent scientific and ethical implications of his ideas today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Richardson, Angelique

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Darwin and Interdisciplinarity: A Historical Perspective

Angelique Richardson

‘Love and Hatred are Common to the Whole Sensitive Creation’: Animal Feeling in the Century before Darwin

Jane Spencer

‘The Book of The Season’: The Conception and Reception of Darwin’s Expression

Angelique Richardson

The Backbone Shiver: Darwin and the Arts

Gillian Beer

Becoming an Animal: Darwin and the Evolution of Sympathy

Paul White

George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and Morals

Angelique Richardson

Between Medicine and Evolutionary Theory: Sympathy and Other Emotional Investments in Life Writings by and about Charles Darwin

David Amigoni

From Entangled Vision to Ethical Engagement: Darwin, Affect, and Contemporary Exhibition Projects

Monika Pietrzak-Franger

Reckoning with the Emotions: Neurological Responses to the Theory of Evolution, 1870-1930

L.S. Jacyna

Darwin’s Changing Expression and the Making of the Modern State

Rhodri Hayward

Calling the Wild: Selection, Domestication, and Species

Harriet Ritvo

The Development of Emotional Life

Michael Lewis

Afterword: The Emotional and Moral Lives of Animals: What Darwin Would Have Said

Marc Bekoff

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Angelique Richardson is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, where she is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Medical History, and an Associate Research Fellow of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis). Her research and teaching interests embrace Victorian Studies, medical humanities and animal studies, and she has published widely on aspects of Victorian science and culture. Her books include Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman (Oxford University Press, 2003); as editor Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890–1914 (Penguin Classics, 2005) and Essentialism in Science and Culture, Critical Quarterly Special Issue (2011); and, as coeditor, Victorian Literature: A Sourcebook (Palgrave, 2012). She is now completing Thomas Hardy and Biology.