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Christine Lehleiter

Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity

English · Paperback / Softback

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Description

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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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