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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... reality but a psychological one. As the rest of his Fuegian account demonstrates, it is not merely a rough and uncultivated nature, but, especially upon first encounter, a cognitive entanglement or confused interfusing of different ...
... reality but a psychological one. As the rest of his Fuegian account demonstrates, it is not merely a rough and uncultivated nature, but, especially upon first encounter, a cognitive entanglement or confused interfusing of different ...
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... reality. Notes 1. Darwin at first enjoys the austere beauty of Tierra del Fuego, but he is delighted to leave “this stupid, unpicturesque side of America. When Tierra del F is over, it will all be Holidays” (Correspondence 1: 322). 2 ...
... reality. Notes 1. Darwin at first enjoys the austere beauty of Tierra del Fuego, but he is delighted to leave “this stupid, unpicturesque side of America. When Tierra del F is over, it will all be Holidays” (Correspondence 1: 322). 2 ...
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... reality, unlike that provided by “poststructuralist theories of language and culture,” must address “the interactions of innate dispositions, cultural order, and individual identity,” all three (Literary 24); recognition of the complex ...
... reality, unlike that provided by “poststructuralist theories of language and culture,” must address “the interactions of innate dispositions, cultural order, and individual identity,” all three (Literary 24); recognition of the complex ...
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... reality; George Levine recognizes nine of these—three primary and six secondary— that together constitute “a sort of gestalt of the Darwinian imagination” and prove especially relevant to creative writers (14–20, 13). Either in ...
... reality; George Levine recognizes nine of these—three primary and six secondary— that together constitute “a sort of gestalt of the Darwinian imagination” and prove especially relevant to creative writers (14–20, 13). Either in ...
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... reality more difficult to read than if difference in fact could entirely disappear or opposites entirely merge. Ultimately the situation is one of both/and (or both-and): binary distinctions both combine and linger. For example, in ...
... reality more difficult to read than if difference in fact could entirely disappear or opposites entirely merge. Ultimately the situation is one of both/and (or both-and): binary distinctions both combine and linger. For example, in ...
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