America's Darwin : Darwinian Theory and U.S. Culture /

"The 16 essays in this collection explore the distinctive qualities of America's textual engagement with Darwinism--the ways in which Darwinian language and theories have made their way into American Literary and cultural texts, providing writers a new vocabulary to describe human affairs...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Fisher, Lydia (Editor ), Gianquitto, Tina (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Darwin, Charles > 1809-1882
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Influence.
Amerikanisches Englisch
Literatur
Rezeption
Evolutionstheorie
Social Darwinism in literature.
Literature and science.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Evolution (Biology) in literature.
American literature.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Darwinisme social dans la litterature.
Litterature et sciences > États-Unis.
Literature and science > United States.
American literature > History and criticism.
Verenigde Staten.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Textual responses to Darwinian theory in the U.S. scene / Tina Gianquitto and Lydia Fisher
  • Theorizing uncertainty : Charles Darwin and William James on emotion / Gregory Eiselein
  • "The long road" : John Burroughs and Charles Darwin, 1862-1921 / Jeff Walker
  • Darwin and the prairie origins of American entomology : Benjamin D. Walsh, pioneer visionary / Carol Anelli
  • Darwin's year and Melville's "New ancient of days" / Karen Lentz Madison and R.D. Madison
  • Darwinism and the "stored beauty" of culture in Edith Wharton's writing / Paul Ohler
  • "A world which is not all in, and never will be" : Darwinism, pragmatist thinking, and modernist poetry / Heike Schaefer
  • Sexual selection and the economics of marriage : "female choice" in the writings of Edward Bellamy and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Kimberly A. Hamlin
  • American reform Darwinism meets Russian mutual aid : utopian feminism in Mary Bradfey Lane's Mizora / Lydia Fisher
  • The loud echo of a "far-distant past" : Darwin, Norris, and the clarity of anger / Melanie Dawson
  • Criminal botany : progress, degeneration, and Darwin's Insectivorous plants / Tina Gianquitto
  • Bodies, words, and works : Charles Darwin and Lewis Henry Morgan on human-animal relations / Gillian Feeley-Harnik
  • "The power of choice" : Darwinian concepts of animal mind in Jack London's dog stories / Lilian Carswell
  • T.C. Boyle's neoevolutionary queer ecologies : questioning species in "Descent of man" and "Dogology" / Nicole M. Merola
  • Ape meets primatologist : post-Darwinian interspecies romances / Virginia Richter.

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