The Age of Analogy : Science and Literature between the Darwins /

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"Drawing on a wide range of archival evidence and contemporary models of scientific and literary networks, The Age of Analogy explores the critical role analogies play within historical and scientific thinking. Griffiths also presents readers with a new theory of analogy that emphasizes languag...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Griffiths, Devin, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: BALTIMORE : JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Darwin, Erasmus > 1731-1802
Darwin, Charles > 1809-1882
Darwin, Erasmus, > 1731-1802.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Criticism and interpretation.
Darwin, Erasmus, > 1731-1802 > Knowledge > Natural history.
Darwin, Erasmus, > 1731-1802 > Influence.
Literarischer Stil
Analogie
Science in literature.
Nature in literature.
Natural history.
Literature and science.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
English literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Litterature et sciences > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Sciences dans la litterature.
Nature dans la litterature.
Literature and science > England > History > 19th century.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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