What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the...
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What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 What Animal? Darwin's Displacement of Man; 2 Creating Connections: Humans, Apes and Missing Links; 3 Apes and Ape-men: The Anxiety of Simianation; 4 Missing Links and Lost Worlds: The Anxiety of Assimilation; 5 Cultural Pessimism and Anthropological Anxiety; Notes; Bibliography; Index