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  1. Darwin's plots
    evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction
    Author: Beer, Gillian
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Gillian Beer's landmark book demonstrates how Darwin overturned fundamental cultural assumptions in his narratives, how George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and other writers pursued and resisted their contradictory implications, and how the stories he... more

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    Gillian Beer's landmark book demonstrates how Darwin overturned fundamental cultural assumptions in his narratives, how George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and other writers pursued and resisted their contradictory implications, and how the stories he produced about natural selection and the struggle for life now underpin our culture. This second edition of Darwin's Plots incorporates a new preface by the author and a foreword by the distinguished American scholar George Levine

     
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  2. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Author: Danta, Chris
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and... more

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    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781108552394
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    RVK Categories: EC 6579
    Subjects: Animals in literature; Fables / History and criticism; Human-animal relationships in literature; Literature, Modern / 19th century / History and criticism; Literature, Modern / 20th century / History and criticism; Fabel; Naturwissenschaften
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence
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  3. America's Darwin
    Darwinian theory and U.S. literary culture
    Contributor: Gianquitto, Tina (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Univ. of Georgia Press, Athens [u.a.]

    "While much has been written about the impact of Darwin's theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin's theories as a cultural force... more

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    "While much has been written about the impact of Darwin's theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin's theories as a cultural force affecting U.S. writers. America's Darwin fills this gap and features a range of critical approaches that examine U.S. textual responses to Darwin's works.The scholars in this collection represent a range of disciplines--literature, history of science, women's studies, geology, biology, entomology, and anthropology. All pay close attention to the specific forms that Darwinian evolution took in the United States, engaging not only with Darwin's most famous works, such as On the Origin of Species, but also with less familiar works, such as The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Each contributor considers distinctive social, cultural, and intellectual conditions that affected the reception and dissemination of evolutionary thought, from before the publication of On the Origin of Species to the early years of the twenty-first century. These essays engage with the specific details and language of a wide selection of Darwin's texts, treating his writings as primary sources essential to comprehending the impact of Darwinian language on American writers and thinkers. This careful engagement with the texts of evolution enables us to see the broad points of its acceptance and adoption in the American scene; this approach also highlights the ways in which writers, reformers, and others reconfigured Darwinian language to suit their individual purposes. America's Darwin demonstrates the many ways in which writers and others fit themselves to a narrative of evolution whose dominant motifs are contingency and uncertainty. Collectively, the authors make the compelling case that the interpretation of evolutionary theory in the U.S. has always shifted in relation to prevailing cultural anxieties"--

     
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    Contributor: Gianquitto, Tina (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780820344485; 9780820346755
    RVK Categories: HR 1640
    Subjects: American literature / History and criticism; Literature and science / United States; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Social Darwinism in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Rezeption; Evolutionstheorie; Literatur
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: VI, 401 S., Ill., 23 cm
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    Introduction : Textual responses to Darwinian theory in the U.S. scene / Tina Gianquitto and Lydia Fisher -- Theorizing uncertainty : Charles Darwin and William James on emotion / Gregory Eiselein -- "The long road" : John Burroughs and Charles Darwin, 1862-1921 / Jeff Walker -- Darwin and the prairie origins of American entomology : Benjamin D. Walsh, pioneer visionary / Carol Anelli -- Darwin's year and Melville's "New ancient of days" / Karen Lentz Madison and R.D. Madison -- Darwinism and the "stored beauty" of culture in Edith Wharton's writing / Paul Ohler -- "A world which is not all in, and never will be" : Darwinism, pragmatist thinking, and modernist poetry / Heike Schaefer -- Sexual selection and the economics of marriage : "female choice" in the writings of Edward Bellamy and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Kimberly A. Hamlin -- American reform Darwinism meets Russian mutual aid : utopian feminism in Mary Bradfey Lane's Mizora / Lydia Fisher -- The loud echo of a "far-distant past" : Darwin, Norris, and the clarity of anger / Melanie Dawson -- Criminal botany : progress, degeneration, and Darwin's Insectivorous plants / Tina Gianquitto -- Bodies, words, and works : Charles Darwin and Lewis Henry Morgan on human-animal relations / Gillian Feeley-Harnik -- "The power of choice" : Darwinian concepts of animal mind in Jack London's dog stories / Lilian Carswell -- T.C. Boyle's neoevolutionary queer ecologies : questioning species in "Descent of man" and "Dogology" / Nicole M. Merola -- Ape meets primatologist : post-Darwinian interspecies romances / Virginia Richter
  4. America's Darwin
    Darwinian theory and U.S. literary culture
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  The University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia

  5. Tragedy and the modernist novel
    Author: Lempert, Manya
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    This study of tragic fiction in European modernism brings together novelists who espoused, in their view, a Greek vision of tragedy and a Darwinian vision of nature. To their minds, both tragedy and natural history disclosed unwarranted suffering at... more

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    This study of tragic fiction in European modernism brings together novelists who espoused, in their view, a Greek vision of tragedy and a Darwinian vision of nature. To their minds, both tragedy and natural history disclosed unwarranted suffering at the center of life. Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, and Samuel Beckett broke with entrenched philosophical and scientific traditions that sought to exclude chance, undeserved pains from tragedy and evolutionary biology. Tragedy and the Modernist Novel uncovers a temporality central to tragic novels' structure and ethics: that of the moment. These authors made novelistic plot the delivery system for lethal natural and historical forces, and then countered such plot with moments of protest - characters' fleeting dissent against unjustifiable harms

     
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    ISBN: 9781108865616
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    Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Tragic, The, in literature; Nature in literature; Tragedy / History and criticism; Greek drama (Tragedy) / Influence; Moderne; Rezeption; Tragödie; Roman; Griechisch
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence
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  6. Wordsworth and evolution in Victorian literature
    entangled influence
    Author: Olsen, Trenton B.
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York ; London

    Wordsworth in the age of evolution -- Matthew Arnold, artificial selection, and transcendent culture -- George Eliot, moral evolution, and the growth of the sympathetic mind -- Robert Louis Stevenson and the struggle for living art -- Thomas Hardy... more

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    Wordsworth in the age of evolution -- Matthew Arnold, artificial selection, and transcendent culture -- George Eliot, moral evolution, and the growth of the sympathetic mind -- Robert Louis Stevenson and the struggle for living art -- Thomas Hardy and the extinction of transcendence -- Evolving toward modernism: a conclusion

     
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    ISBN: 9780367138394
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    RVK Categories: HL 4905
    Series: The nineteenth century series
    Subjects: Englisch; Evolution; Literatur
    Other subjects: Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Wordsworth, William / 1770-1850 / Influence; Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Evolution in literature; Nature in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 182 Seiten), Illustrationen
  7. D.H. Lawrence and survival
    Darwinism in the fiction of the transitional period
    Author: Granofsky, Ronald
    Published: c2003
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal

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  8. Darwin's plots
    evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction
    Author: Beer, Gillian
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0511010877; 051103475X; 0511118554; 0511755104; 052178008X; 0521783925; 9780511010873; 9780511034756; 9780511118555; 9780511755101; 9780521780087; 9780521783927
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Subjects: Roman anglais / 19e siècle / Thèmes, motifs; Évolution dans la littérature; Littérature et sciences / Grande-Bretagne / Histoire / 19e siècle; Nature dans la littérature; Narration; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Evolution in literature; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literature and science; Narration (Rhetoric); Natural history; Nature in literature; Darwinismus; Evolutionstheorie; Roman; Geschichte; Wissen; English fiction; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Literature and science; Evolution in literature; Nature in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Evolutionstheorie; Englisch; Darwinismus; Erzähltechnik; Literatur; Roman
    Other subjects: Eliot, George / 1819-1880 / Knowledge / Natural history / Knowledge / Natural history / Influence; Hardy, Thomas / 1840-1928 / Knowledge / Natural history / Knowledge / Natural history / Influence; Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Knowledge / Natural history / Knowledge / Natural history / Influence; Eliot, George / 1819-1880 / Et les sciences naturelles; Hardy, Thomas / 1840-1928 / Et les sciences naturelles; Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882; Eliot, George / 1819-1880; Hardy, Thomas / 1840-1928; Eliot, George; Hardy, Thomas; Eliot, George (1819-1880); Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Darwin, Charles (1809-1882): On the origin of species by means of natural selection; Eliot, George (1819-1880)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxii, 277 pages)
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    'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world -- Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order -- Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The origin -- Darwinian myths -- George Eliot: Middlemarch -- George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life -- Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative -- Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels
  9. Wordsworth and evolution in Victorian literature
    entangled influence
    Author: Olsen, Trenton B.
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

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    ISBN: 9780367138394; 0367138395
    Series: The nineteenth century series
    Subjects: English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Evolution in literature; Nature in literature
    Other subjects: Wordsworth, William / 1770-1850 / Influence; Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence
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  10. Darwin and theories of aesthetics and cultural history
    Contributor: Larson, Barbara (Publisher); Flach, Sabine (Publisher)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham [u.a.]

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    Contributor: Larson, Barbara (Publisher); Flach, Sabine (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781409448709
    RVK Categories: CC 6900 ; CH 5317 ; HL 2565 ; LH 61045
    Subjects: Aesthetics, Modern; Art and science; Kunst; Rezeption; Kulturtheorie; Kultur; Ästhetik
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: X, 176 S., Ill., 24 cm
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  11. After Darwin
    literature, theory, and criticism in the twenty-first century
    Contributor: Griffiths, Devin (Publisher); Kreisel, Deanna K. (Publisher)
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York

    Creative storytelling is the beating heart of Darwin's science. All of Darwin's writings drew on information gleaned from a worldwide network of scientific research and correspondence, but they hinge on moments in which Darwin asks his reader to... more

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    Creative storytelling is the beating heart of Darwin's science. All of Darwin's writings drew on information gleaned from a worldwide network of scientific research and correspondence, but they hinge on moments in which Darwin asks his reader to imagine how specific patterns came to be over time, spinning yarns filled with protagonists and antagonists, crises, triumphs, and tragedies. His fictions also forged striking new possibilities for the interpretation of human societies and their relation to natural environments. This volume gathers an international roster of scholars to ask what Darwin's writing offers future of literary scholarship and critical theory, as well as allied fields like history, art history, philosophy, gender studies, disability studies, the history of race, aesthetics, and ethics. It speaks to anyone interested in the impact of Darwin on the humanities, including literary scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers interested in Darwin's continuing influence

     
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    Contributor: Griffiths, Devin (Publisher); Kreisel, Deanna K. (Publisher)
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    ISBN: 9781009181167
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    RVK Categories: WH 2000 ; HL 2565
    Series: After series (Cambridge University Press)
    Subjects: Literature and science; Literature / History and criticism / Theory, etc; Aesthetics; Science and the humanities; Einfluss; Sozialwissenschaften; Biowissenschaften; Geisteswissenschaften
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
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  12. After Darwin
    literature, theory, and criticism in the twenty-first century
    Author: Griffiths, Devin; Kreisel, Deanna K.
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York

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    ISBN: 9781009181174; 9781009181150
    RVK Categories: WH 2000 ; HL 2565
    Series: After series
    Subjects: Biowissenschaften; Sozialwissenschaften; Geisteswissenschaften; Einfluss
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; Literature / History and criticism / Theory, etc; Literature and science; Aesthetics; Science and the humanities
    Scope: x, 264 Seiten
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  13. Galdós and Darwin
    Author: Bell, T. E.
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Tamesis, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK

    Darwinian theory - the big idea of the nineteenth century - and its impact on the writing of Benito P©♭rez Gald©đs. Despite the fact that Darwinian theory was perhaps the big idea of the nineteenth century, most critics in the past have assumed that... more

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    Darwinian theory - the big idea of the nineteenth century - and its impact on the writing of Benito P©♭rez Gald©đs. Despite the fact that Darwinian theory was perhaps the big idea of the nineteenth century, most critics in the past have assumed that Benito P©♭rez Gald©đs would have remained unaffected by this scientific and philosophical revolution. This work contends otherwise, charting the influence of evolutionary theories on Gald©đs throughout his literary career. From his adaptation of the early nineteenth-century costumbristas' depiction of social species into a more sophisticated portrayal of Madrid society to his treatment of shifting social forces at a time of major socio-economic change, Gald©đs's outlook is shown to be deeply enmeshed in the Darwinian debate. Attention is paid not only to the hypotheses of Darwin himself, but also for instance to Ernst Haeckel's evolutionary thought, to Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism, and to the radical histology of Santiago Ram©đn y Cajal. Gald©đs and Darwin discusses how Spain's greatest novelist since Cervantes imaginatively reworked these epoch-making theories and investigates the impact of science on culture as the Spanish nation approached the twentieth century. T. E. BELL completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Round at Sheffield University

     
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    ISBN: 9781846154683
    Series: Colección Támesis ; 225
    Subjects: Evolution in literature; Darwinismus <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Pérez Galdós, Benito / 1843-1920 / Philosophy; Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; Pérez Galdós, Benito (1843-1920)
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  14. Biopolitics and animal species in nineteenth-century literature and science
    Author: Rowlinson, Matthew Charles
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York, NY

    Principles of species taxonomy were contested ground throughout the nineteenth century, including those governing the classification of humans. Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy was a literary and cultural project as much as a scientific one. His... more

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    Principles of species taxonomy were contested ground throughout the nineteenth century, including those governing the classification of humans. Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy was a literary and cultural project as much as a scientific one. His investigation explores animal species in Romantic writers including Gilbert White and Keats, taxonomies in Victorian lyrics and the nonsense botanies and alphabets of Edward Lear, and species, race, and other forms of aggregated life in Darwin's writing, showing how the latter views these as shaped by unconscious agency. Engaging with theoretical debates at the intersection of animal studies and psychoanalysis, and covering a wide range of science writing, poetry, and prose fiction, this study shows the political and psychic stakes of questions about species identity and management. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details

     
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    ISBN: 9781009409940
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    Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 147
    Subjects: English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Animal species / Research / History; Animals in literature; Animals / Classification / History; Biopolitics in literature; Biopolitics / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Romanticism / Great Britain
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence
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    Method and field -- Species lyric -- "How can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?" Species poetics, onomatopoeia, and birdsong -- Onomatopoeia, nonsense, and naming : species poetics after Darwin's Origin -- Darwin's unconscious : history, the work of the negative, and natural selection -- Foreign bodies : the human species and its symptom -- "Whose blood is it?" Economies of blood in mid-Victorian poetry and medicine -- The totem and the vampire : species-identity in anthropology, literature, and psychoanalysis
  15. Darwin and theories of aesthetics and cultural history
    Contributor: Larson, Barbara (Publisher); Flach, Sabine (Publisher)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham [u.a.]

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Larson, Barbara (Publisher); Flach, Sabine (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781409448709
    RVK Categories: CC 6900 ; CH 5317 ; HL 2565 ; LH 61045
    Subjects: Aesthetics, Modern; Art and science; Kunst; Rezeption; Kulturtheorie; Kultur; Ästhetik
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: X, 176 S., Ill., 24 cm
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  16. Darwin & the writers
    Author: Rukeyser, Muriel
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York, New York

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  17. America's Darwin
    Darwinian theory and U.S. literary culture
    Contributor: Gianquitto, Tina (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Univ. of Georgia Press, Athens [u.a.]

    "While much has been written about the impact of Darwin's theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin's theories as a cultural force... more

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    "While much has been written about the impact of Darwin's theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin's theories as a cultural force affecting U.S. writers. America's Darwin fills this gap and features a range of critical approaches that examine U.S. textual responses to Darwin's works.The scholars in this collection represent a range of disciplines--literature, history of science, women's studies, geology, biology, entomology, and anthropology. All pay close attention to the specific forms that Darwinian evolution took in the United States, engaging not only with Darwin's most famous works, such as On the Origin of Species, but also with less familiar works, such as The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Each contributor considers distinctive social, cultural, and intellectual conditions that affected the reception and dissemination of evolutionary thought, from before the publication of On the Origin of Species to the early years of the twenty-first century. These essays engage with the specific details and language of a wide selection of Darwin's texts, treating his writings as primary sources essential to comprehending the impact of Darwinian language on American writers and thinkers. This careful engagement with the texts of evolution enables us to see the broad points of its acceptance and adoption in the American scene; this approach also highlights the ways in which writers, reformers, and others reconfigured Darwinian language to suit their individual purposes. America's Darwin demonstrates the many ways in which writers and others fit themselves to a narrative of evolution whose dominant motifs are contingency and uncertainty. Collectively, the authors make the compelling case that the interpretation of evolutionary theory in the U.S. has always shifted in relation to prevailing cultural anxieties"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Gianquitto, Tina (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780820344485; 9780820346755
    RVK Categories: HR 1640
    Subjects: American literature / History and criticism; Literature and science / United States; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Social Darwinism in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Rezeption; Evolutionstheorie; Literatur
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: VI, 401 S., Ill., 23 cm
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    Introduction : Textual responses to Darwinian theory in the U.S. scene / Tina Gianquitto and Lydia Fisher -- Theorizing uncertainty : Charles Darwin and William James on emotion / Gregory Eiselein -- "The long road" : John Burroughs and Charles Darwin, 1862-1921 / Jeff Walker -- Darwin and the prairie origins of American entomology : Benjamin D. Walsh, pioneer visionary / Carol Anelli -- Darwin's year and Melville's "New ancient of days" / Karen Lentz Madison and R.D. Madison -- Darwinism and the "stored beauty" of culture in Edith Wharton's writing / Paul Ohler -- "A world which is not all in, and never will be" : Darwinism, pragmatist thinking, and modernist poetry / Heike Schaefer -- Sexual selection and the economics of marriage : "female choice" in the writings of Edward Bellamy and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Kimberly A. Hamlin -- American reform Darwinism meets Russian mutual aid : utopian feminism in Mary Bradfey Lane's Mizora / Lydia Fisher -- The loud echo of a "far-distant past" : Darwin, Norris, and the clarity of anger / Melanie Dawson -- Criminal botany : progress, degeneration, and Darwin's Insectivorous plants / Tina Gianquitto -- Bodies, words, and works : Charles Darwin and Lewis Henry Morgan on human-animal relations / Gillian Feeley-Harnik -- "The power of choice" : Darwinian concepts of animal mind in Jack London's dog stories / Lilian Carswell -- T.C. Boyle's neoevolutionary queer ecologies : questioning species in "Descent of man" and "Dogology" / Nicole M. Merola -- Ape meets primatologist : post-Darwinian interspecies romances / Virginia Richter
  18. After Darwin
    literature, theory, and criticism in the twenty-first century
    Author: Griffiths, Devin; Kreisel, Deanna K.
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781009181174; 9781009181150
    RVK Categories: WH 2000 ; HL 2565
    Series: After series
    Subjects: Biowissenschaften; Sozialwissenschaften; Geisteswissenschaften; Einfluss
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; Literature / History and criticism / Theory, etc; Literature and science; Aesthetics; Science and the humanities
    Scope: x, 264 Seiten
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  19. Wordsworth and evolution in Victorian literature
    entangled influence
    Author: Olsen, Trenton B.
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York ; London

    Wordsworth in the age of evolution -- Matthew Arnold, artificial selection, and transcendent culture -- George Eliot, moral evolution, and the growth of the sympathetic mind -- Robert Louis Stevenson and the struggle for living art -- Thomas Hardy... more

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    Wordsworth in the age of evolution -- Matthew Arnold, artificial selection, and transcendent culture -- George Eliot, moral evolution, and the growth of the sympathetic mind -- Robert Louis Stevenson and the struggle for living art -- Thomas Hardy and the extinction of transcendence -- Evolving toward modernism: a conclusion

     
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    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780367138394
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    RVK Categories: HL 4905
    Series: The nineteenth century series
    Subjects: Englisch; Evolution; Literatur
    Other subjects: Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Wordsworth, William / 1770-1850 / Influence; Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Evolution in literature; Nature in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 182 Seiten), Illustrationen
  20. Reading Darwin in imperial Russia
    literature and ideas
    Contributor: Drozd, Andrew Michael (Publisher); Mooney, Brendan (Publisher); Woodburn, Stephen M. (Publisher)
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Lexington Books, Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London

    "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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  21. The literary imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells
    science, evolution, and ecology
    Author: Page, Michael R.
    Published: ©2012
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, England

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781409438700; 1409438708; 9781409438694; 1409438694
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literature and science; Science in literature; Geschichte; English literature; Literature and science; Science in literature; Evolutionstheorie; Naturwissenschaften; Englisch; Ökologie; Literatur
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 224 pages)
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    Introduction -- "The banner of science": science and the nineteenth-century British -- Literary imagination -- "Beautiful and sublime images of the operations of nature": Erasmus Darwin -- "Mirrors of the gigantic shadows of futurity": Wordsworth and Shelley -- "A new species": Mary Shelley's science fiction novels -- "A tangled bank": Darwinian science fictions -- "Dim outlines on a desolate beach": H.G. Wells -- Conclusion: "Where do we go from here?"
  22. Reading human nature
    literary Darwinism in theory and practice
    Author: Carroll, Joseph
    Published: c2011
    Publisher:  State University of New York Press, Albany

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1438435223; 1438435231; 1441688862; 9781438435220; 9781438435237; 9781438435244; 9781441688866
    Subjects: TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Evolutionary psychology; Human behavior / Philosophy; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literature and science; Literature / Theory, etc; Literatur; Philosophie; Literature and science; Literature; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Human behavior; Evolutionary psychology; Darwinismus; Literatur; Literaturtheorie; Evolutionspsychologie; Englisch
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 352 p.)
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    Part one: Adaptationist literary theory -- Part Two: Interpretive practice. Aestheticism, homoeroticism, and Christian guilt in The picture of Dorian Gray; the cuckoo's history: human nature in Wuthering Heights; intentional meaning in Hamlet -- Part three: Empirical literary study: an experiment in web-based research. Agonistic structure in Victorian novels: doing the math; quantifying agonistic structure in The mayor of Casterbridge -- Part four: Evolutionary intellectual history. The power of Darwin's vision; the science wars in a long view; a Darwinian revolution in the humanities
  23. Darwin's plots
    evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction
    Author: Beer, Gillian
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Gillian Beer's landmark book demonstrates how Darwin overturned fundamental cultural assumptions in his narratives, how George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and other writers pursued and resisted their contradictory implications, and how the stories he... more

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    Gillian Beer's landmark book demonstrates how Darwin overturned fundamental cultural assumptions in his narratives, how George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and other writers pursued and resisted their contradictory implications, and how the stories he produced about natural selection and the struggle for life now underpin our culture. This second edition of Darwin's Plots incorporates a new preface by the author and a foreword by the distinguished American scholar George Levine

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511755101
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    RVK Categories: HL 1091 ; HL 1331
    Edition: Second edition
    Subjects: Geschichte; Wissen; English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Literature and science / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Evolution in literature; Nature in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Roman; Erzähltechnik; Darwinismus; Evolutionstheorie; Englisch; Literatur
    Other subjects: Eliot, George / 1819-1880 / Knowledge / Natural history; Hardy, Thomas / 1840-1928 / Knowledge / Natural history; Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882): On the origin of species by means of natural selection; Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Eliot, George (1819-1880)
    Scope: 1 online resource (xxxii, 277 pages)
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    'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world -- Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order -- Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The origin -- Darwinian myths -- George Eliot: Middlemarch -- George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life -- Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative -- Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels
  24. Tragedy and the modernist novel
    Author: Lempert, Manya
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore

    This study of tragic fiction in European modernism brings together novelists who espoused, in their view, a Greek vision of tragedy and a Darwinian vision of nature. To their minds, both tragedy and natural history disclosed unwarranted suffering at... more

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    This study of tragic fiction in European modernism brings together novelists who espoused, in their view, a Greek vision of tragedy and a Darwinian vision of nature. To their minds, both tragedy and natural history disclosed unwarranted suffering at the center of life. Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, and Samuel Beckett broke with entrenched philosophical and scientific traditions that sought to exclude chance, undeserved pains from tragedy and evolutionary biology. Tragedy and the Modernist Novel uncovers a temporality central to tragic novels' structure and ethics: that of the moment. These authors made novelistic plot the delivery system for lethal natural and historical forces, and then countered such plot with moments of protest - characters' fleeting dissent against unjustifiable harms

     
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  25. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Author: Danta, Chris
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and... more

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    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781108552394
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    RVK Categories: EC 6579
    Subjects: Animals in literature; Fables / History and criticism; Human-animal relationships in literature; Literature, Modern / 19th century / History and criticism; Literature, Modern / 20th century / History and criticism; Fabel; Naturwissenschaften
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 216 Seiten)
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