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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... animals. For example, “their courage is like that of a wild beast” and “Their skill in some respects may be compared to the instinct of animals; for it is not improved by experience: the canoe, their most ingenious work, poor as it is ...
... animals. For example, “their courage is like that of a wild beast” and “Their skill in some respects may be compared to the instinct of animals; for it is not improved by experience: the canoe, their most ingenious work, poor as it is ...
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... animals.” To this Darwin adds the observation—here denying the natives even the degree of instinctual intelligence he allows them in his letter—that they ”do not possess the instinct of those [domesticated] animals, nor yet appear to ...
... animals.” To this Darwin adds the observation—here denying the natives even the degree of instinctual intelligence he allows them in his letter—that they ”do not possess the instinct of those [domesticated] animals, nor yet appear to ...
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... animals. Nevertheless, his overdetermined positing of savagery as inhuman otherness bears a strong trace of his original uncomprehending reaction to Fuegians as reported in his Beagle writings. The young Darwin experiences Fuegians as ...
... animals. Nevertheless, his overdetermined positing of savagery as inhuman otherness bears a strong trace of his original uncomprehending reaction to Fuegians as reported in his Beagle writings. The young Darwin experiences Fuegians as ...
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... animal life. Probably the entangled bank, and certainly his paper on the development of “mould,” owes much to Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne (1789), a book that Darwin studied in his teens and took with him aboard the ...
... animal life. Probably the entangled bank, and certainly his paper on the development of “mould,” owes much to Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne (1789), a book that Darwin studied in his teens and took with him aboard the ...
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... animals. This decentering, however, could be understood in positive terms, indicating a somewhat egalitarian and cooperative role for humans amidst life on earth—but it also suggests that other species might evolve in such a way as to ...
... animals. This decentering, however, could be understood in positive terms, indicating a somewhat egalitarian and cooperative role for humans amidst life on earth—but it also suggests that other species might evolve in such a way as to ...
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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