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Reflecting on Darwin

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Reflecting on Darwin

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Reflecting on Darwin book

ByEckart Voigts, Barbara Schaff
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 7 April 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315604220
Pages 248
eBook ISBN 9781315604220
Subjects Humanities, Language & Literature
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Voigts, E., & Schaff, B. (2014). Reflecting on Darwin (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315604220

ABSTRACT

Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they have inspired, Reflecting on Darwin poses the following questions: 'How are the apparatuses in the mid-nineteenth century and at the turn of the twenty-first century interconnected with bio-scientific paradigms in art, literature, culture and science?' 'How are naturalism, determinism and Darwinism - the eugenics of the nineteenth century and the genetic coding of the twentieth century - positioned, embodied and staged in various media configurations and media genres?' and 'How have particular media apparatuses formed, displaced or stabilized the various concepts of humankind in the framework of evolutionary theory?' Ranging from the early circulation of Darwin’s ideas to the present, this interdisciplinary collection pays particular attention to Darwin’s postmillennial reception. Beginning with an overview of the historical development of contemporary ecological and ethical fears, Reflecting on Darwin then turns to Darwin’s influence on contemporary media, neo-Victorian literature and culture, science fiction literature and film, and contemporary theory. In examining the plurality of ways in which Darwin has been rewritten and reappropriated, this unique volume both mirrors and inspects the complexity of recent debates in Victorian and neo-Victorian studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction: Cultural Reflections on Darwin and Their Historical Evolution

ByMonika Pietrzak-Franger, Eckart Voigts

part |2 pages

Part 1 The Cultural Evolution of Darwin’s Thought

chapter 1|24 pages

‘I differ widely from you’: Darwin, Galton and the Culture of Eugenics

ByAngelique Richardson

chapter 2|16 pages

Evolution, Heredity and Visuality: Reading Faces with Thomas Hardy

BySusanne Scholz

chapter 3|16 pages

‘How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!’: Darwin’s ‘Ape Theory’ and Its Traces in Victorian Children’s Magazines

ByJochen Petzold

chapter 4|16 pages

Gender Trouble as Monkey Business: Changing Roles of Simian Characters in Literature and Film between 1870 and 1930

ByJulika Griem

part |2 pages

Part 2 Darwin’s Cultural Resonance Today

chapter 5|22 pages

Neo-Victorian Darwin: Representations of the Nineteenth-Century Scientist, Naturalist and Explorer in Twenty-First-Century Women’s Writing

ByAnn Heilmann

chapter 6|16 pages

(Mis-)Representations of Darwin’s Origin and Evolutionary Master Narratives in The Sea (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008)

ByFelix C.H. Sprang

chapter 7|16 pages

Evolution for Better or for Worse? Science Fiction Literature and Film and the Public Debate on the Future of Humanity

ByAngela Schwarz

part |2 pages

Part 3 Darwin as ‘Pop Star’ of Contemporary Theory

chapter 8|18 pages

Displacing Humans, Reconfiguring Darwin in Contemporary Culture and Theory

ByTheory Virginia Richter

chapter 9|18 pages

Ordering Darwin: Evolution and Normativity

ByNils Wilkinson

chapter 10|16 pages

The Limits of Sociobiology: Is There a Sociobiological Explanation of Culture?

ByMathias Gutmann

chapter 11|24 pages

‘Survival of the Fittest’ in Darwinian Metaphysics: Tautology or Testable Theory?

ByMomme von Sydow
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