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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... becomes convinced of the essential immorality that underlies all of their behavior—for instance, he calls them “thieves & . . . bold Cannabals [sic]” (Beagle 135)—and this perception makes seeing them as fellow humans even less ...
... becomes convinced of the essential immorality that underlies all of their behavior—for instance, he calls them “thieves & . . . bold Cannabals [sic]” (Beagle 135)—and this perception makes seeing them as fellow humans even less ...
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... become enmeshed with their presumed opposites. More of an incomplete mixture than a collapsing or deconstruction of oppositions, this binary confusion elicits the air of bemusement that permeates Darwin's experience. Moreover, years ...
... become enmeshed with their presumed opposites. More of an incomplete mixture than a collapsing or deconstruction of oppositions, this binary confusion elicits the air of bemusement that permeates Darwin's experience. Moreover, years ...
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... become intertwined, resulting in corresponding epistemological disorder. To a considerable degree, Darwin's reactions to Tierra del Fuego adumbrate late Victorian novelistic representations that, when influenced by evolutionary ideas ...
... become intertwined, resulting in corresponding epistemological disorder. To a considerable degree, Darwin's reactions to Tierra del Fuego adumbrate late Victorian novelistic representations that, when influenced by evolutionary ideas ...
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... becomes submerged in the springtime sound of running water that the scene suggests to his imagination: “with my cheek against one of those green stones/That, fleeced with moss, under the shady trees, / lay around me, scattered like a ...
... becomes submerged in the springtime sound of running water that the scene suggests to his imagination: “with my cheek against one of those green stones/That, fleeced with moss, under the shady trees, / lay around me, scattered like a ...
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... becomes permeable, a situation that Darwin's response to the Fuegians illustrates, as do many other narratives of contact between Europeans and indigenous peoples. Late Victorians applied physically distinctive Paleolithic remains ...
... becomes permeable, a situation that Darwin's response to the Fuegians illustrates, as do many other narratives of contact between Europeans and indigenous peoples. Late Victorians applied physically distinctive Paleolithic remains ...
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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