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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... culture and nature in extremis at the extremity of the world—confront Darwin with the antipodes of his moral and intellectual homeland.4 More precisely, Tierra del Fuego confuses the complex of dualities that orders young Darwin's ...
... culture and nature in extremis at the extremity of the world—confront Darwin with the antipodes of his moral and intellectual homeland.4 More precisely, Tierra del Fuego confuses the complex of dualities that orders young Darwin's ...
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... culture war between evolutionism on the one hand and creationism or its ... nature and the possibility of objective knowledge. Applying insights from ... nature is at least as important as nurture in shaping human behaviors. These include ...
... culture war between evolutionism on the one hand and creationism or its ... nature and the possibility of objective knowledge. Applying insights from ... nature is at least as important as nurture in shaping human behaviors. These include ...
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... nature conceived as wilderness. But from the first “entanglement” could indicate a desirable condition under ... culture, and, on the other, subsuming local disorder within the neoclassical concept of “Nature”—the ultimate rationality ...
... nature conceived as wilderness. But from the first “entanglement” could indicate a desirable condition under ... culture, and, on the other, subsuming local disorder within the neoclassical concept of “Nature”—the ultimate rationality ...
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... natural theology, familiar to Darwin through his intimate knowledge of William ... nature, but its connections and adaptations are complicated and part of a ... culture. A handful of end-of-century novels acutely record and participate ...
... natural theology, familiar to Darwin through his intimate knowledge of William ... nature, but its connections and adaptations are complicated and part of a ... culture. A handful of end-of-century novels acutely record and participate ...
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... natural selection and other aspects of Darwin's theory. Having grown to intellectual adulthood in a society permeated by the ... culture/nature, progress/degeneration, good/evil, life/death, order/chaos. Darwinian evolution renders these ...
... natural selection and other aspects of Darwin's theory. Having grown to intellectual adulthood in a society permeated by the ... culture/nature, progress/degeneration, good/evil, life/death, order/chaos. Darwinian evolution renders these ...
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