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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... progress that transmutes historical ugliness into self-validation. Regarding Darwin's mixed reactions to the Fuegians—the uncanniness of their appearing at once human and inhuman and Darwin's response of moral revulsion to them as ...
... progress that transmutes historical ugliness into self-validation. Regarding Darwin's mixed reactions to the Fuegians—the uncanniness of their appearing at once human and inhuman and Darwin's response of moral revulsion to them as ...
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... progress. Seven of the eight definitions that Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755) gives for “entangle” strongly express confusion and entrapment; his initial effort defines it as “To inwrap or ensnare with ...
... progress. Seven of the eight definitions that Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755) gives for “entangle” strongly express confusion and entrapment; his initial effort defines it as “To inwrap or ensnare with ...
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... progress as a part of a universal tendency toward improvement, but it also sanctioned the idea of degeneration, as conveniently applicable to civilization as to biology. Darwinism allowed humanity to honor itself for the evolutionary ...
... progress as a part of a universal tendency toward improvement, but it also sanctioned the idea of degeneration, as conveniently applicable to civilization as to biology. Darwinism allowed humanity to honor itself for the evolutionary ...
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... progress. This period produced the aforementioned texts noteworthy for the depth and detail with which they treat biological evolution, its cultural implications, and its patterns of entanglement: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Island ...
... progress. This period produced the aforementioned texts noteworthy for the depth and detail with which they treat biological evolution, its cultural implications, and its patterns of entanglement: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Island ...
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... progress; they also provided evidence for the theory, promoted by Alfred Wallace and others, that the human brain is too sophisticated to be explained by natural selection or physical causation alone—a construal that again separates ...
... progress; they also provided evidence for the theory, promoted by Alfred Wallace and others, that the human brain is too sophisticated to be explained by natural selection or physical causation alone—a construal that again separates ...
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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