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  1. Reading Darwin in imperial Russia
    literature and ideas
    Contributor: Drozd, Andrew Michael (HerausgeberIn); Mooney, Brendan (HerausgeberIn); Woodburn, Stephen M. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Lexington Books, Lanham

    "This book examines the reception of Darwin's books and ideas in Russia as a cultural phenomenon, involving language, literature, science, philosophy, and humor. Diverse writers reveal the impact of the Darwinian moment on Russian minds and the... more

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    "This book examines the reception of Darwin's books and ideas in Russia as a cultural phenomenon, involving language, literature, science, philosophy, and humor. Diverse writers reveal the impact of the Darwinian moment on Russian minds and the public exchange of ideas, reflecting the optimism and anxiety of the late imperial era"--

     

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    Contributor: Drozd, Andrew Michael (HerausgeberIn); Mooney, Brendan (HerausgeberIn); Woodburn, Stephen M. (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781666920840
    Subjects: Evolution (Biology) in literature; Natural selection in literature; Russian literature; Natural selection; Evolution (Biology); Intellectuals
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: vi, 292 Seiten
    Notes:

    Brendan G. Mooney: What's in a word?: a history of the words "evolution" and "natural selection" in Russian and of Kliment Timiriazev's legacy as a translator and popularizer of Darwinism /

    James Goodwin: An upheaval in thinking minds: Darwin's Russian reception as a contextual source in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment /

    Brendan G. Mooney: Nikolai Strakhov on Darwinism: humans, progress, and organicism /

    Victoria Thorstensson: Anti-Darwinism as anti-nihilism: the conservative response to Darwinism in Mikhail Katkov's Russian Messenger and The Moscow News and Boleslav Markevich's pedagogical romance Marina from Alyrog (1873) /

    Stephen M. Woodburn: Nationality, philosophy, and science in Nikolai Danilevsky's critique of Darwinism /

    Charles Byrd: Darwinism "dressed in Russian state uniform": Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's "The Predators" and other works /

    Andrew M. Drozd: An attack from the left: Nikolai Chernyshevsky's critique of Darwin /

    Melissa L. Miller.: Learned neighbors and hypnotic seances: on Anton Chekhov's Darwinist parodies /