Literature After Darwin - Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: V Richter, V. Richter, Virginia Richter, Richter Virginia
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2010
• EAN: 9780230273405
• ISBN: 978-0-230-27340-5
• No. of pages: 257
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European History, Cultural Theory, Social History, Social & cultural history, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Civilization—History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, English literature;fiction;Franz Kafka;Rudyard Kipling