Darwin and the Memory of the Human - Evolution, Savages, and South America

Informationen zum Autor Cannon Schmitt is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Klappentext Shows how Victorian naturalists transformed their encounters with South America into influential accounts of biological change. Zusammenfassung In this book Cannon Schmitt shows how Darwin and other Victorian naturalists transformed their encounters with the South American continent and its indigenous peoples into influential accounts of biological change! race! and the origins of humanity. His observations open a new discussion concerning the cultural meanings of evolutionary theory in the Victorian period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Charles Darwin's savage mnemonics; 2. Alfred Russel Wallace's tropical memorabilia; 3. Charles Kingsley's recollected empire; 4. W. H. Hudson's memory of loss; Coda: some reflections.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Cannon Schmitt, Cannon (University of Toronto) Schmitt
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 29.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521765602
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76560-2
• Seiten: 260
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein