Marking Time

Romanticism and Evolution

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2017
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
9781442644304 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Joel Faflak is professor of English and Theory at Western University, where he was also the Inaugural Director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities.

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Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution

Joel Faflak

Part 1 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

Matthew Rowlinson

Part 2 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 3 Goethe and the Contingencies of Life

6. Goethe's Morphology

Gábor Áron Zemplén

7. Vertiginous Life: Goethe, Bones, and Italy

Andrew Piper

8. Taking Chances

Theresa M. Kelley

Part 4 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

Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2018
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 235 mm
Gewicht	660 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
ISBN-13	9781442644304 / 9781442644304
Zustand	Neuware