Marking time : romanticism and evolution / edited by Joel Faflak.

Contributor(s):

Faflak, Joel [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2017]Description: 1 electronic resource (x, 321 pages )Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781442699595
1442699590
9781487518165
1487518161
9781442699601
1442699604
1442644303
9781442644304

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Marking time : romanticism & evolution [Spine title]
Romanticism and evolution

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

History.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Marking timeDDC classification:

809/.9145 23

LOC classification:

PN603

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

Introduction. Marking time : romanticism and evolution / Joel Faflak -- Part one: Romanticism's Darwin. 1. Plants, analogy, and perfection : loose and strict analogies / Gillian Beer ; 2. Darwin and the mobility of species / Alan Bewell ; 3. Darwin's ideas [ideas in strikethrough text] / Matthew Rowlinson -- Part two: Romantic temporalities. 4. Deep time in the South Pacific : scientific voyaging and the ancient/primitive analogy / Noah Heringman ; 5. Malthus our contemporary? : toward a political economy of sex / Maureen N. McLane -- Part three: Goethe and the contingencies of life. 6. Structure and advancement in Goethe's morphology / Gábor Áron Zemplén ; 7. Vertiginous life : Goethe, bones, and Italy / Andrew Piper ; 8. Taking chances / Theresa M. Kelley -- Part four: Evolutionary idealisms. 9. Did Goethe and Schelling endorse species evolution? / Robert J. Richards ; 10. The vitality of idealism : life and evolution in Schelling's and Hegel's systems / Tilottama Rajan ; 11. Degeneration : inversions of teleology / Joan Steigerwald.

Summary: "Victorian studies scholars have long studied the impact of Charles Darwin's writings on nineteenth-century culture. However, few have ventured to examine the precursors to the ideas of Darwin and others in the Romantic period. 'Marking time', edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing its origins to the literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the long nineteenth century. The volume's contributors revisit key developments in the history of evolution prior to 'On the origin of species' and explore British and European Romanticism's negotiation between the classic idea of a great immutable chain of being and modern notions of historical change. 'Marking time' reveals how Romantic and post-Romantic configurations of historical, socio-cultural, scientific, and philosophical transformation continue to exert a profound influence on critical and cultural thought."--The dustjacket

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"Victorian studies scholars have long studied the impact of Charles Darwin's writings on nineteenth-century culture. However, few have ventured to examine the precursors to the ideas of Darwin and others in the Romantic period. 'Marking time', edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing its origins to the literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the long nineteenth century. The volume's contributors revisit key developments in the history of evolution prior to 'On the origin of species' and explore British and European Romanticism's negotiation between the classic idea of a great immutable chain of being and modern notions of historical change. 'Marking time' reveals how Romantic and post-Romantic configurations of historical, socio-cultural, scientific, and philosophical transformation continue to exert a profound influence on critical and cultural thought."--The dustjacket