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  1. Autobiologies
    Charles Darwin and the Natural History of the Self
    Author: Harley, Alexis
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Bucknell University Press, Lanham

    <span><span>The nineteenth century saw both an explosion of evolutionary ideas and an explosion in autobiographical writing. This book examines the collision between evolutionary thought and practices of self-representation, to show how... more

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    The nineteenth century saw both an explosion of evolutionary ideas and an explosion in autobiographical writing. This book examines the collision between evolutionary thought and practices of self-representation, to show how nineteenth-century natural history refashioned the human subject.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781611486001
    Subjects: Autobiography; Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882; Evolution (Biology); Natural selection; Science -- History -- 19th century; Self (Philosophy)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (235 p)
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    Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Darwinian Selves; I: Darwin; Chapter One: Darwin's Family; Chapter Two: Naturalist Self-fashioning and Seeing in Darwin's Beagle Diary; Chapter Three: Animal Darwin and the Sympathy Instinct; II: Variations; Chapter Four: Theories of Self-transformation; Chapter Five: "A Natural History of Myself"; Chapter Six: Harriet Martineau's Autothanatography and the Comtean Self; III: Autobiologies; Chapter Seven: De Profundis, Degeneration and Wilde's Spencerian Individualism; Chapter Eight: Father and Son

    Chapter Nine: In Memoriam and the Consolations of DevelopmentConclusion: After the Victorians; Bibliography; Index; About the Author