03088nam 2200445 450 991050265930332120230629222551.03-030-82738-0(CKB)4100000012037512(MiAaPQ)EBC6736348(Au-PeEL)EBL6736348(OCoLC)1276854423(EXLCZ)99410000001203751220220625d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Early evolutionary imagination literature and human nature /Emelie JonssonCham, Switzerland :Palgrave Macmillan,[2021]©20211 online resource (305 pages)Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance3-030-82737-2 Intro -- -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Contents -- 1 Using Evolution to Explain the Evolutionary Imagination -- 1.1 The Case for Literature -- 1.2 A Current View of the Human Species -- 1.3 The Human Niche -- 1.4 Sociality and Social Organization -- 1.5 Imagination and the Arts -- 1.6 Species Identity and Literature -- References -- 2 Myth-Making in Early Evolutionary Thought -- 2.1 Negotiating Human Uniqueness -- 2.2 Myths of Order, Cooperation, and Harmony -- 2.3 Myths of Competition, Inequality, and Individualism -- 2.4 Nature as Antagonist or Protagonist -- 2.5 Making Meaning -- References -- 3 Darwinism in Literature -- 3.1 Previous Literary Scholarship -- 3.2 The Position of Evolutionary Literary Theory -- References -- 4 From Adventure to Utopia -- 4.1 Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912) -- 4.2 Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) -- 4.3 Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race (1871) -- References -- 5 Jack London's Evolutionary Imagination -- 5.1 The Split Cosmic Vision and the Handcuff to Life -- 5.2 Martin Eden (1909) -- 5.3 The Sea-Wolf (1904) -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References -- 6 H. G. Wells's Evolutionary Imagination -- 6.1 The Little Animals and the Mind of the Race -- 6.2 The Shakespeare of Science Fiction -- 6.3 The Time Machine (1895) -- 6.4 The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Joseph Conrad's Evolutionary Imagination -- 7.1 Conrad's Science -- 7.2 The Skeptical Life Strategy -- The Personal Level -- The Cultural Level -- The Universal Level -- 7.3 Heart of Darkness (1899) -- 7.4 Conclusion -- References -- 8 The Unimaginable Place in Nature -- References -- Index.Cognitive studies in literature and performance.Evolution in literatureLiterature, Modern19th centuryHistory and criticismEvolution in literature.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.812Jonsson Emelie852718MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910502659303321The Early Evolutionary Imagination2568251UNINA