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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... Dracula. 7. Conrad, Joseph, 1857–1924 – Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. ISBN–13: 978–0–7546–5821–4 (alk. paper) PR878.E95G55 2007 823'.809356–dc22 2006030252 ISBN 9780754658214 (hbk) Contents Acknowledgements Prologue: Tierra ...
... Dracula. 7. Conrad, Joseph, 1857–1924 – Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. ISBN–13: 978–0–7546–5821–4 (alk. paper) PR878.E95G55 2007 823'.809356–dc22 2006030252 ISBN 9780754658214 (hbk) Contents Acknowledgements Prologue: Tierra ...
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... in Stoker's Dracula 5 Death and the Jungle in Conrad's Early Fiction 6 Conclusion Epilogue: Galapagos 1835 (2004) Works Cited Index vii 39 69 107 137 185 203 209 219 This page intentionally left blank Table of Contents.
... in Stoker's Dracula 5 Death and the Jungle in Conrad's Early Fiction 6 Conclusion Epilogue: Galapagos 1835 (2004) Works Cited Index vii 39 69 107 137 185 203 209 219 This page intentionally left blank Table of Contents.
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... Dracula (1897), and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902). In addition I will discuss, in less detail, other narratives published or largely written in the 1890s: Well's first novel, The Time Machine (1895); Conrad's early novels ...
... Dracula (1897), and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902). In addition I will discuss, in less detail, other narratives published or largely written in the 1890s: Well's first novel, The Time Machine (1895); Conrad's early novels ...
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... Dracula, and Conrad's early novels. Although not foci of this study, such novels as, in Britain, Wells's The Time Machine and W.H. Hudson's Green Mansions and, in America, Kate Chopin's The Awakening also testify to the 1890s impulse to ...
... Dracula, and Conrad's early novels. Although not foci of this study, such novels as, in Britain, Wells's The Time Machine and W.H. Hudson's Green Mansions and, in America, Kate Chopin's The Awakening also testify to the 1890s impulse to ...
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... Dracula in particular illustrate this instability. Entangled dualities, the ones just discussed and those so far only named, are a persistent theme in this book. Daniel Dennett has characterized Darwinism as “a universal acid” that ...
... Dracula in particular illustrate this instability. Entangled dualities, the ones just discussed and those so far only named, are a persistent theme in this book. Daniel Dennett has characterized Darwinism as “a universal acid” that ...
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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