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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... sense of greater life. The forests of Tierra del Fuego involve a different form of entanglement, that of outright wilderness. When he tries to “penetrate some way into the country,” Darwin finds Fuegian vegetation so snarled and dense ...
... sense of greater life. The forests of Tierra del Fuego involve a different form of entanglement, that of outright wilderness. When he tries to “penetrate some way into the country,” Darwin finds Fuegian vegetation so snarled and dense ...
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... sense: “To intertwist (threads, branches, or the like) complicatedly or confusedly together . . . .” A reason for this relative neutrality is that “tangle” used in this way generally places humans in subject rather than object positions ...
... sense: “To intertwist (threads, branches, or the like) complicatedly or confusedly together . . . .” A reason for this relative neutrality is that “tangle” used in this way generally places humans in subject rather than object positions ...
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... sense of expansion, wholeness, or maternal nurture. Darwin read The Seasons during his boyhood and much romantic poetry up through his 20s, and he especially enjoyed the poems of Wordsworth and Coleridge in the years following his ...
... sense of expansion, wholeness, or maternal nurture. Darwin read The Seasons during his boyhood and much romantic poetry up through his 20s, and he especially enjoyed the poems of Wordsworth and Coleridge in the years following his ...
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... sense of their new perceptions; no principles of identification or organization suffice. The novels featured in this book confuse the standards and definitions that configure modern society and self-identity, and they do so by placing ...
... sense of their new perceptions; no principles of identification or organization suffice. The novels featured in this book confuse the standards and definitions that configure modern society and self-identity, and they do so by placing ...
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... sense simultaneously of the natural world as exquisite and gross, rank and sensitive, [that] constantly subverts the poise of any moralised description of it” (102). But it is repulsive disorder, whether intellectual, moral, or ...
... sense simultaneously of the natural world as exquisite and gross, rank and sensitive, [that] constantly subverts the poise of any moralised description of it” (102). But it is repulsive disorder, whether intellectual, moral, or ...
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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