Marking Time Romanticism and Evolution
"Victorian studies scholars have long studied the impact of Charles Darwin's writings on nineteenth-century culture. However, few have ventured to examine the precursors to the ideas of Darwin and others in the Romantic period. 'Marking time', edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prev...
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| Formato: | Electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press
2018
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419811606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Marking time : romanticism and evolution / Joel Faflak
- Part one: Romanticism's Darwin. 1. Plants, analogy, and perfection : loose and strict analogies / Gillian Beer ; 2. Darwin and the mobility of species / Alan Bewell ; 3. Darwin's ideas [ideas in strikethrough text] / Matthew Rowlinson
- Part two: Romantic temporalities. 4. Deep time in the South Pacific : scientific voyaging and the ancient/primitive analogy / Noah Heringman ; 5. Malthus our contemporary? : toward a political economy of sex / Maureen N. McLane
- Part three: Goethe and the contingencies of life. 6. Structure and advancement in Goethe's morphology / Gábor Áron Zemplen ; 7. Vertiginous life : Goethe, bones, and Italy / Andrew Piper ; 8. Taking chances / Theresa M. Kelley
- Part four: Evolutionary idealisms. 9. Did Goethe and Schelling endorse species evolution? / Robert J. Richards ; 10. The vitality of idealism : life and evolution in Schelling's and Hegel's systems / Tilottama Rajan ; 11. Degeneration : inversions of teleology / Joan Steigerwald.
