| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 305 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 3 |
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Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 3.
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| Contents |
Chapter Introduction: The Descent of Darwin in Atlantic Cultures / JEANNETTE EILEEN JONES AND PATRICK B. SHARP -- part Part I Genders and Sexualities -- chapter 1 Strange Birds: Friedrich Nietzsche, Djuna Barnes, and Queer Evolution / ROBERT AZZARELLO -- chapter 2 "Sexual Selection" and the Social Revolution: Anarchist Eugenics and Radical Darwinism in the United States, 1850-1910 / JESSE F. BATTAN -- chapter 3 The Birds and the Bees: Darwin's Evolutionary Approach to Sexuality / KIMBERLY A. HAMLIN -- chapter 4 Love in the Age of Darwinian Reproduction / MARK B. FELDMAN -- chapter 5 Victorian Birdsongs: Sexual Selection, Gender, and Darwin's Theory of Music / LAURA M. BOLT -- part Part II Race and Difference -- chapter 6 Rise and Fall: Degeneration, Historical Determinism, and CHRISTY A. CANNARIATO / William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom! -- chapter 7 What Is It? Difference, Darwin, and the Victorian Freak Show / LINDSEY B. CHURCHILL -- chapter 8 The Mocking Meme: Popular Darwinism, Illustrative Graphics, and Editorial Cartooning / G. BRUCE RETALLACK -- chapter 9 Selective Affi nities: Darwin's Theory of Evolution in Adventure / Novels by Jack London and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle HERBERT KLEIN -- part Part III Colonization, Nation, and "Progress" -- chapter 10 Simians, Negroes, and the "Missing Link": Evolutionary Discourses and Transatlantic Debates on "The Negro Question" / JEANNETTE EILEEN JONES -- chapter 11 Evolution in the Backlands: Brazilian Intellectuals and the Development of a Nation / GILDO MAGALHÃES SANTOS -- chapter 12 The Evolution of the West: Darwinist Visions of Race and Progress in Roosevelt and Turner / PATRICK B. SHARP -- chapter 13 Darwinism in Spanish America: Union and Diversity in José Rodó and José Vasconcelos / Rodó and José Vasconcelos ADRIANA NOVOA -- chapter 14 The Miseducation of Henry Adams: Fantasies of Race, Citizenship, and Darwinian Dynamos / JOHN P. BRUNI |
| Summary |
This collection is an interdisciplinary edited volume that examines the circulation of Darwinian ideas in the Atlantic space as they impacted systems of Western thought and culture. Specifically, the book explores the influence of the principle tenets of Darwinism -- such as the theory of evolution, the ape-man theory of human origins, and the principle of sexual selection -- on established transatlantic intellectual traditions and cultural practices. In doing so, it pays particular attention to how Darwinism reconfigured discourses on race, gender, and sexuality in a transnational context |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 fast |
| Subject |
Social Darwinism.
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Social Darwinism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Social Darwinism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Jeannette Eileen, 1970-
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Sharp, Patrick B., 1967-
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| LC no. |
2009024547 |
| ISBN |
9780415872348 |
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0415872340 |
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9780203863336 |
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020386333X |
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9781135178727 |
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1135178720 |
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