V. Richter

Literature After Darwin

Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-32391-3
• 1st ed. 2011
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9781349323913
• ISBN-10: 1349323918
• Artikelnr.: 45073877

Autorenporträt

VIRGINIA RICHTER holds a Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Berne, Switzerland. Previously, she taught English and Comparative Literature at the Universities of Munich and Göttingen. She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of Leeds. She has published and lectured widely on Darwinism and on Victorian and Modernist literature and culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Epigraphs What Animal? Darwin's Displacement of Man Creating Connections: Humans, Apes, and Missing Links Apes and Ape-Men: the Anxiety of Simianation Missing Links and Lost Worlds: the Anxiety of Assimilation Cultural Pessimism and Anthropological Anxiety Notes Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Epigraphs What Animal? Darwin's Displacement of Man Creating Connections: Humans, Apes, and Missing Links Apes and Ape-Men: the Anxiety of Simianation Missing Links and Lost Worlds: the Anxiety of Assimilation Cultural Pessimism and Anthropological Anxiety Notes Bibliography Index