Literature After Darwin [electronic resource] : Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939 /
Richter, V.author.
What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
What animal? Darwin's displacement of man -- Creating connections: humans, apes, and missing links -- Apes and ape-men : the anxiety of simianation -- Missing links and lost worlds : the anxiety of assimilation -- Cultural pessimism and anthropological anxiety.
What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
Great Britain-History.
British literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Social History.
Cultural History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
British and Irish Literature.