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The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures
edited by Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James Rodopi
(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft, 152)
Amsterdam, NY: Rodopi 2011. 346 pp.
ISBN 9789042033979
Contents
Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James
Introduction: The Evolution of Literature 9
David Knight
The Law of Higgledy-pigglety: Charles Darwin's Inheritance, his Legacy
and the Moral Order of Nature 19
Paul Weindling
'Our Racial Friends': Disease, Poverty and Social Darwinism, 1860-1940 35
Joseph Emonds
From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps 51
David Amigoni
Charles Darwin's Centenary and the Politics and Poetics of Parenting:
Inheritance, Variation, and the Aesthetic Legacy of Samuel Butler
73
Anna Barton
By An Evolutionist: Poetic Language in Chambers and Tennyson 87
John Holmes
Victorian Evolutionary Criticism and the Pitfalls of Consilience 101
Simon J. James H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and the End of Literature
113
Patricia Waugh
Mind in Modern Fiction: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives after
Darwin 125
Alistair Brown
E-Volutionary Fictions: The Darwinian Algorithm in Literature and
Computer Games 141
Jon Adams
Value Judgements and Functional Roles: Carroll's Quarrel With Pinker
155
Wendy Wheeler
The Book of Nature: Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Literature 171
Christopher Lloyd
Men, Monkeys, Monsters and Evolution in Fiction from the Fin-de-siècle
to the Present 185
David Baguley
Zola and Darwin: A Reassessment 201
Louise Lyle
On the Evolution of Humanity and the Oppressions of Darwinism in
French Postwar Fiction 213
Douglas Morrey
Houellebecq, Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology 227
Nicholas Saul
'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 239
John A. McCarthy
'Live like a Man and not like a Monkey': Nietzsche's Philosophic
Vitalism and Darwin's Theory of Evolution 255
David Midgley
'Creative Evolution': Bergson's Critique of Science and its Reception
in the German-Speaking World 283
Katja Mellmann
Evolutionary Psychology as a Heuristic in Literary Studies 299
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