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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... behaviors both bearing qualities he designates as “wild.” The “entangled” character of the forest offers a model for understanding Darwin's reaction to the wildness/wilderness he perceives. Wilderness is not just a physical reality but ...
... behaviors both bearing qualities he designates as “wild.” The “entangled” character of the forest offers a model for understanding Darwin's reaction to the wildness/wilderness he perceives. Wilderness is not just a physical reality but ...
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... behavior—for instance, he calls them “thieves & . . . bold Cannabals [sic]” (Beagle 135)—and this perception makes seeing them as fellow humans even less acceptable. His various efforts to reject them offers Darwin not only self ...
... behavior—for instance, he calls them “thieves & . . . bold Cannabals [sic]” (Beagle 135)—and this perception makes seeing them as fellow humans even less acceptable. His various efforts to reject them offers Darwin not only self ...
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... behavior is animalistic—on the order of tearing prey and wallowing in mud—not only exaggerates but obscures one source of their fascination—that these beings, however much they can be compared to wild animals, in many ways resemble ...
... behavior is animalistic—on the order of tearing prey and wallowing in mud—not only exaggerates but obscures one source of their fascination—that these beings, however much they can be compared to wild animals, in many ways resemble ...
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... behavior, “the new Darwinism” asserts not only that Darwinism, like other forms of scientific investigation, offers access to truth, but that nature is at least as important as nurture in shaping human behaviors. These include the ...
... behavior, “the new Darwinism” asserts not only that Darwinism, like other forms of scientific investigation, offers access to truth, but that nature is at least as important as nurture in shaping human behaviors. These include the ...
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... behavior (nature or culture), with individuals and groups appearing advanced in some contexts and savage in others, a confusion that a number of late Victorian novels record. Heart of Darkness and Dracula in particular illustrate this ...
... behavior (nature or culture), with individuals and groups appearing advanced in some contexts and savage in others, a confusion that a number of late Victorian novels record. Heart of Darkness and Dracula in particular illustrate this ...
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