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  1. Literature after Darwin
    human beasts in western fiction, 1859-1939
    Author: Richter, Virginia
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York

    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... more

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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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1282999567; 9780230273405; 9781282999565
    RVK Categories: HG 431 ; HL 2565
    Series: Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
    Subjects: Human beings; Human beings in literature; Apes in literature; Human evolution in literature; Literature and science; Literature and science; Evolution (Biology) in literature; English fiction; English fiction
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (x, 257 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    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