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Literature After Darwin

Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939

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Authors:
  1. Virginia Richter

    1. University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. What Animal? Darwin’s Displacement of Man

    • Virginia Richter
    Pages 1-16
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  3. Creating Connections: Humans, Apes and Missing Links

    • Virginia Richter
    Pages 17-61
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  4. Apes and Ape-men: The Anxiety of Simianation

    • Virginia Richter
    Pages 62-118
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  5. Missing Links and Lost Worlds: The Anxiety of Assimilation

    • Virginia Richter
    Pages 119-162
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  6. Cultural Pessimism and Anthropological Anxiety

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    Pages 163-215
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  7. Back Matter

    Pages 216-257
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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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  • University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

    Virginia Richter

About the author

VIRGINIA RICHTER holds a Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Berne, Switzerland. Previously, she taught English and Comparative Literature at the Universities of Munich and Göttingen. She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of Leeds. She has published and lectured widely on Darwinism and on Victorian and Modernist literature and culture.

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