The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels: An Entangled BankRoutledge, 16 бер. 2016 р. - 234 стор. Dominated by Darwinism and the numerous guises it assumed, evolutionary theory was a source of opportunities and difficulties for late Victorian novelists. Texts produced by Wells, Hardy, Stoker, and Conrad are exemplary in reflecting and participating in these challenges. Not only do they contend with evolutionary complications, John Glendening argues, but the complexities and entanglements of evolutionary theory, interacting with multiple cultural influences, thoroughly permeate the narrative, descriptive, and thematic fabric of each. All the books Glendening examines, from The Island of Doctor Moreau and Dracula to Heart of Darkness, address the interrelationship between order and chaos revealed and promoted by evolutionary thinking of the period. Glendening's particular focus is on how Darwinism informs novels in relation to a late Victorian culture that encouraged authors to stress, not objective truths illuminated by Darwinism, but rather the contingencies, uncertainties, and confusions generated by it and other forms of evolutionary theory. |
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... Darwin, Charles, 1809–1882 – Influence 4. Evolution (Biology) in literature 5. English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism 6. Literature and science – Great Britain – History – 19th century 7. Nature in literature 8 ...
... Darwin, Charles, 1809–1882 – Influence 4. Evolution (Biology) in literature 5. English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism 6. Literature and science – Great Britain – History – 19th century 7. Nature in literature 8 ...
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... Darwin saw Tierra del Fuego and its natives for the first time: A group of Fuegians partly concealed by the entangled forest, were perched on a wild point overhanging the sea; and as we passed by, they sprang up, and waving their ...
... Darwin saw Tierra del Fuego and its natives for the first time: A group of Fuegians partly concealed by the entangled forest, were perched on a wild point overhanging the sea; and as we passed by, they sprang up, and waving their ...
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... Darwin declares that [a]mong the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of ...
... Darwin declares that [a]mong the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of ...
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... Darwin's uncomprehending point of view, incoherently mixed. Even upon nearer view, these people, their faces masked by paint, remain “partly concealed” because Darwin cannot decipher the jumble of signs they present. The face of an old ...
... Darwin's uncomprehending point of view, incoherently mixed. Even upon nearer view, these people, their faces masked by paint, remain “partly concealed” because Darwin cannot decipher the jumble of signs they present. The face of an old ...
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... Darwin says, “perhaps no one is more sure to create astonishment, than the first sight, in his native haunt. . . of man in his lowest and most savage state. One's mind hurries back over past centuries, & then asks could our progenitors ...
... Darwin says, “perhaps no one is more sure to create astonishment, than the first sight, in his native haunt. . . of man in his lowest and most savage state. One's mind hurries back over past centuries, & then asks could our progenitors ...
Зміст
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Evolution and Entanglement in Wellss The Island of Doctor Moreau | 39 |
3 The Entangled Heroine of Hardys Tess of the DUrbervilles | 69 |
Evolution and Primitivism in Stokers Dracula | 107 |
5 Death and the Jungle in Conrads Early Fiction | 137 |
6 Conclusion | 185 |
Galapagos 1835 2004 | 203 |
Works Cited | 209 |
Index | 219 |
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Aïssa Angel animals appears argues asserts becomes behavior biological chance chaotic Chapter character civilization complexity complicated condition confusion connection Conrad contingency D’Urbervilles Darwin Darwin’s entangled bank Darwinian death decay degeneration Descent disorder Doctor Moreau dominant Dracula environment ethical evolution evolutionary theory evolved existence experience expresses fear fiction forest Fuegians Galapagos Green Mansions Hardy Hardy’s Harker Heart of Darkness human Huxley Huxley’s idea imagination implications indeterminacy individual influence interpretations Island of Doctor jungle Kurtz Lamarckian Lamarckism late Victorian leopard-man Marlow mental modern moral narrative narrator natives natural selection nature and culture negative Nevertheless novel order and chaos Origin Origin of Species particular perceived physical positive Possession postmodern potential Prendick primitive progress psychological reality represents rhododendrons romance savage scientific seems sense sexual selection social society species story struggle suggests survival sympathy tangled Tess Tess’s Thomas Huxley Tierra del Fuego Transylvania truth understanding universe vampire Wells’s wilderness