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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... 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 appearing at once human and inhuman and Darwin's ...
... 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 appearing at once human and inhuman and Darwin's ...
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... story-telling, these two critics, and Beer especially, have been widely and justifiably influential with their sophisticated demonstrations of how Darwin formulates his arguments in ways consistent with the strategies of creative ...
... story-telling, these two critics, and Beer especially, have been widely and justifiably influential with their sophisticated demonstrations of how Darwin formulates his arguments in ways consistent with the strategies of creative ...
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... story focused on “survival of the fittest”—on chance, competition, predation, death, and extinction. By eliding elements of apparent disorder, especially moral disorder, the entangled bank releases “entangled” from its negative ...
... story focused on “survival of the fittest”—on chance, competition, predation, death, and extinction. By eliding elements of apparent disorder, especially moral disorder, the entangled bank releases “entangled” from its negative ...
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... story—for example, about the degree to which Lamarckian processes supplement natural selection, about whether natural selection is primarily a morally negative or positive force, and about whether or not evolution is progressive and how ...
... story—for example, about the degree to which Lamarckian processes supplement natural selection, about whether natural selection is primarily a morally negative or positive force, and about whether or not evolution is progressive and how ...
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... story, while much of the book stresses the, for many, unpalatable process that brings about evolution. Furthermore, in the Origin Darwin sometimes employs the language of progressivistic optimism while propounding a theory that mandates ...
... story, while much of the book stresses the, for many, unpalatable process that brings about evolution. Furthermore, in the Origin Darwin sometimes employs the language of progressivistic optimism while propounding a theory that mandates ...
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