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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... experiences a form of confusion in which conventional or habitual structures of understanding fail to organize and ... experience these responses at their emotional extremes tend toward two varieties of sublimity: the self-threatening ...
... experiences a form of confusion in which conventional or habitual structures of understanding fail to organize and ... experience these responses at their emotional extremes tend toward two varieties of sublimity: the self-threatening ...
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... experience: the canoe, their most ingenious work, poor as it is, has remained the same, for the last 250 years” (Beagle 139; Journal 236). In a letter he recalls: We here saw the native Fuegian; an untamed savage is I really think one ...
... experience: the canoe, their most ingenious work, poor as it is, has remained the same, for the last 250 years” (Beagle 139; Journal 236). In a letter he recalls: We here saw the native Fuegian; an untamed savage is I really think one ...
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... experience, as Freud argues, in which self and other seem at once fundamentally distinct and strangely connected—one of the issues Ian Duncan analyzes in his insightful essay, “Darwin and the Savages.”2 Fascinated, Darwin's language ...
... experience, as Freud argues, in which self and other seem at once fundamentally distinct and strangely connected—one of the issues Ian Duncan analyzes in his insightful essay, “Darwin and the Savages.”2 Fascinated, Darwin's language ...
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... experience of Fuegians to the Freudian theory of the uncanny (Duncan 28–30). An investigation of the implications of Darwin's textual responses to the Fuegians, both those recorded soon after his contact with them and those written much ...
... experience of Fuegians to the Freudian theory of the uncanny (Duncan 28–30). An investigation of the implications of Darwin's textual responses to the Fuegians, both those recorded soon after his contact with them and those written much ...
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... experience in which his craving for a hoard of hazelnuts causes him to violate the sanctity of nature. He breaks into the “virgin scene” (21) of a secluded grove, but even before arriving there he penetrates and damages a natural world ...
... experience in which his craving for a hoard of hazelnuts causes him to violate the sanctity of nature. He breaks into the “virgin scene” (21) of a secluded grove, but even before arriving there he penetrates and damages a natural world ...
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