The evolution of literature : legacies of Darwin in European cultures /

The evolution of literature : legacies of Darwin in European cultures / / edited by Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James.

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Daniel Dennett famously claimed for Darwinian theory the status of universal solvent: the totalising theory of theories, even of theories of literature. Yet only a few writers and critics have followed his view. This volume asks why. It examines both evolution in literature, and the evolution of lit...

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Superior document:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 152
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Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures
TeilnehmendeR:
Saul, Nicholas.
James, Simon J.
Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures (2008 : Durham)
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 152.
Physical Description:346 p. :; ill.
Notes:This book emerges from an interdisciplinary comparative literature conference 'The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures', which was held at St. Mary's College, Durham University, from 4-6 April 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Acknowledgements / Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James
  • The Evolution of Literature / Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James
  • The Law of Higgledy-pigglety: Charles Darwin’s Inheritance, his Legacy and the Moral Order of Nature / David Knight
  • ‘Our Racial Friends’: Disease, Poverty and Social Darwinism, 1860-1940 / Paul Weindling
  • From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps / Joseph Emonds
  • Charles Darwin’s Centenary and the Politics and Poetics of Parenting: Inheritance, Variation, and the Aesthetic Legacy of Samuel Butler / David Amigoni
  • By An Evolutionist: Poetic Language in Chambers and Tennyson / Anna Barton
  • Victorian Evolutionary Criticism and the Pitfalls of Consilience / John Holmes
  • H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the End of Literature / Simon J. James
  • Mind in Modern Fiction: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives after Darwin / Patricia Waugh
  • E-Volutionary Fictions: The Darwinian Algorithm in Literature and Computer Games / Alistair Brown
  • Value Judgements and Functional Roles: Carroll’s Quarrel With Pinker / Jon Adams
  • The Book of Nature: Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Literature / Wendy Wheeler
  • Men, Monkeys, Monsters and Evolution in Fiction from the Fin-de-siècle to the Present / Christopher Lloyd
  • Zola and Darwin: A Reassessment / David Baguley
  • On the Evolution of Humanity and the Oppressions of Darwinism in French Postwar Fiction / Louise Lyle
  • Houellebecq, Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology / Douglas Morrey
  • ‘Once in Human Nature, a Thing Cannot be Driven Out’: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Wilhelm Jensen’s The Legacy of Blood (1869). An Early Response to Darwin / Nicholas Saul
  • ‘Live like a Man and not like a Monkey’: Nietzsche’s Philosophic Vitalism and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution / John A. McCarthy
  • ‘Creative Evolution:’ Bergson’s Critique of Science and its Reception in the German-Speaking World / David Midgley
  • Evolutionary Psychology as a Heuristic in Literary Studies / Katja Mellmann
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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