The age of analogy : science and literature between the Darwins /

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"Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed several epic poems and scientific treatises,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Griffiths, Devin, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: BALTIMORE : JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV Press, 2016.
©2016
Temas:
Darwin, Erasmus, > 1731-1802 > Influence.
Darwin, Erasmus, > 1731-1802 > Knowledge > Natural history.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Criticism and interpretation.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882
Darwin, Erasmus, > 1731-1802
Darwin, Charles > 1809-1882
Darwin, Erasmus > 1731-1802
1800-1899
Nature in literature.
Science in literature.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and science > England > History > 19th century.
Nature dans la littérature.
Sciences dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et sciences > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature and science
Natural history
Nature in literature
Science in literature
Analogie
Literarischer Stil
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments ; Introduction. Analogy under a Different Form ; Science, Literature, and History ; The New Historicism ; Thinking through Analogy ; Implications for Comparative Historicism ; Summary of Chapters ; Prelude. Thinking through Analogy; Analogy vs. Comparison ; Harmonic vs. Formal Analogy; Analogy and the "Swerve around the Literary" ; The Sign of Analogy ; Chapter One. Erasmus Darwin, Enlightenment History, and the Crisis of Analogy; The Loves of the Plants and Sexual Taxonomy ; Stadial History and The Botanic Garden ; Flattening Allegory.
  • Zoonomia and Darwin's Insurrection Conclusion: "Philosophical Arguments of the Last Generation" ; Chapter Two. Crossing the Border with Walter Scott; The Subject of Enlightenment History ; The Forensic Antiquary ; Faking the Minstrelsy ; Linguistic Anthropology in Ivanhoe and Waverley ; Conclusion: "So Leyden were alive" ; Chapter Three. Spooky Action in Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H. ; Analogical Verses ; Hallam's Perfect Danäe ; The Logic of Analogy and the Plurality of Worlds ; Comparative Anatomy and the Archetype ; Conclusion: The Higher Type.
  • Chapter Four. Falsifying George Eliot The Westminster Review and the "Historic Imagination" ; "Higher Criticism" and the Natural History of Social Life ; Harmonic Sympathy in Middlemarch ; Form and the Entangled Word ; Conclusion: Against Origins ; Chapter Five. The Origin of Charles Darwin's Orchids; The Analogy Notebooks ; On the Origin of Species and the Curation of Analogy ; Darwin and the Novels ; Orchids in Action ; Flat Theology and Reading for Intent ; Conclusion: Epitaph for the Darwins ; Coda. Climate Science and the "No-Analog Future" ; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F.
  • GH; I; J; K; L ; M; N; O; P ; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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