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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... scientific understandings as educated members of the British middle class. But some of the most interesting passages in the letters, diary, and published journal that grew out of his Beagle voyage occur when he cannot reconcile what he ...
... scientific understandings as educated members of the British middle class. But some of the most interesting passages in the letters, diary, and published journal that grew out of his Beagle voyage occur when he cannot reconcile what he ...
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... scientific discourse. Darwin's texts, Duncan says, tella story of assured personal and social progress that transmutes historical ugliness into self-validation. Regarding Darwin's mixed reactions to the Fuegians—the uncanniness of their ...
... scientific discourse. Darwin's texts, Duncan says, tella story of assured personal and social progress that transmutes historical ugliness into self-validation. Regarding Darwin's mixed reactions to the Fuegians—the uncanniness of their ...
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... scientific investigation, offers access to truth, but that nature is at least as important as nurture in shaping human behaviors. These include the production of literature, whose concerns and patterns manifest evolutionary history ...
... scientific investigation, offers access to truth, but that nature is at least as important as nurture in shaping human behaviors. These include the production of literature, whose concerns and patterns manifest evolutionary history ...
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... scientific empiricism that pays attention to things both large and small. In 1837 Darwin presented to The Geological Society of London his paper “On the Formation of Mould,” which concerns the vital contributions to the development ...
... scientific empiricism that pays attention to things both large and small. In 1837 Darwin presented to The Geological Society of London his paper “On the Formation of Mould,” which concerns the vital contributions to the development ...
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... scientific” text, the Origin not only often couches its arguments metaphorically and imaginatively but leaves them open to further figurative interpretations, thereby offering great latitude for the imaginations of readers to make of it ...
... scientific” text, the Origin not only often couches its arguments metaphorically and imaginatively but leaves them open to further figurative interpretations, thereby offering great latitude for the imaginations of readers to make of it ...
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