Autobiologies : Charles Darwin and the natural history of the self /
Harley, Alexis,author.
Through analysis of memoirs, diaries, letters, and natural histories by Victorian authors, this author explores how "evolutionary theories shaped nineteenth-century autobiographical practices and refashioned the human subject" and "how the lived experience of the individual theorist simultaneously impacted their biological formulations."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.
Introduction : Darwinian selves -- Darwin's family -- Naturalist self-fashioning and seeing in Darwin's Beagle diary --Animal Darwin and the sympathy instinct -- Theories of self-transformation --"A natural history of myself" -- Harriet Martineau's Autothanatography and the Comtean self -- De profundis, degeneration and Wilde's Spencerian individualism -- Father and son : Darwinism and the struggle of two temperaments -- In memoriam, and the consolations of development -- Conclusion : After the Victorians.
Through analysis of memoirs, diaries, letters, and natural histories by Victorian authors, this author explores how "evolutionary theories shaped nineteenth-century autobiographical practices and refashioned the human subject" and "how the lived experience of the individual theorist simultaneously impacted their biological formulations."
Autobiography
Human evolution in literature
Evolution (Biology)
Literature and science