Buch, Englisch, Band 152, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 702 g
Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures
Buch, Englisch, Band 152, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 702 g
Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN: 978-90-420-3397-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James: Introduction: The Evolution of Literature
David Knight: The Law of Higgledy-pigglety: Charles Darwin’s Inheritance, his Legacy and the Moral Order of Nature
Paul Weindling: ‘Our Racial Friends’: Disease, Poverty and Social Darwinism, 1860-1940
Joseph Emonds: From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps
David Amigoni: Charles Darwin’s Centenary and the Politics and Poetics of Parenting: Inheritance, Variation, and the Aesthetic Legacy of Samuel Butler
Anna Barton: By An Evolutionist: Poetic Language in Chambers and Tennyson
John Holmes: Victorian Evolutionary Criticism and the Pitfalls of Consilience
Simon J. James: H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the End of Literature
Patricia Waugh: Mind in Modern Fiction: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives after Darwin
Alistair Brown: E-Volutionary Fictions: The Darwinian Algorithm in Literature and Computer Games
Jon Adams: Value Judgements and Functional Roles: Carroll’s Quarrel With Pinker
Wendy Wheeler: The Book of Nature: Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Literature
Christopher Lloyd: Men, Monkeys, Monsters and Evolution in Fiction from the Fin-de-siècle to the Present
David Baguley: Zola and Darwin: A Reassessment
Louise Lyle: On the Evolution of Humanity and the Oppressions of Darwinism in French Postwar Fiction
Douglas Morrey: Houellebecq, Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology
Nicholas Saul: ‘Once in Human Nature, a Thing Cannot be Driven Out’: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Wilhelm Jensen’s The Legacy of Blood (1869). An Early Response to Darwin
John A. McCarthy: ‘Live like a Man and not like a Monkey’: Nietzsche’s Philosophic Vitalism and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
David Midgley: ‘Creative Evolution’: Bergson’s Critique of Science and its Reception in the German-Speaking World
Katja Mellmann: Evolutionary Psychology as a Heuristic in Literary Studies
Contributors
Index