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Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity

English · Paperback / Softback

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Examining novels, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and collections of anatomical monstrosities, Origins Matter delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications of emerging notions of heredity for the conceptualization of selfhood.

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List of Illustrations
Notes on Translations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Between Freedom and Determination
One: The Discovery of Heredity
Two: Incest and Inbreeding
Three: Cross-breeding and Hybridization
Four: From Blood to Trauma
Bibliography
About the Author
Index

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By Christine Lehleiter

Product details

Authors Christine Lehleiter
Publisher Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 02.03.2017
 
EAN 9781611486230
ISBN 978-1-61148-623-0
No. of pages 342
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
Weight 496 g
Series New Studies in the Age of Goethe
Subject Fiction > Poetry, drama

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