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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... tangled, their mouths frothed with excitement, and their expression was wild, startled, and distrustful. They possessed hardly any arts, and like wild animals lived on what they could catch; they had no government, and were merciless to ...
... tangled, their mouths frothed with excitement, and their expression was wild, startled, and distrustful. They possessed hardly any arts, and like wild animals lived on what they could catch; they had no government, and were merciless to ...
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... tangle,” which itself first appeared in writing during the fourteenth century when it meant to ensnare within difficult or embarrassing circumstances. Words derived from this verb—“tangle” as noun, “tangled” as adjective, “entangle ...
... tangle,” which itself first appeared in writing during the fourteenth century when it meant to ensnare within difficult or embarrassing circumstances. Words derived from this verb—“tangle” as noun, “tangled” as adjective, “entangle ...
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... tangle” and “entangle” mean to interweave, without necessarily unpleasant associations, since the attendant conditions of complication and ... tangled, tree irregular, and bush / The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels 10.
... tangle” and “entangle” mean to interweave, without necessarily unpleasant associations, since the attendant conditions of complication and ... tangled, tree irregular, and bush / The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels 10.
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... tangled,” consistent with the overall philosophical stance of his poem and part of the general cultural shift that included the transition from formal to English gardening, presents entanglement as positive because it signifies nature's ...
... tangled,” consistent with the overall philosophical stance of his poem and part of the general cultural shift that included the transition from formal to English gardening, presents entanglement as positive because it signifies nature's ...
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... tangle of complications and instabilities in the interaction between evolutionary theory and late Victorian culture. A handful of end-of-century novels acutely record and participate in this vexed interaction that Darwinism made ...
... tangle of complications and instabilities in the interaction between evolutionary theory and late Victorian culture. A handful of end-of-century novels acutely record and participate in this vexed interaction that Darwinism made ...
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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The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels: An Entangled Bank John Glendening Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2016 |
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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