LEADER 03313nam 2200565 a 450 001 9911008437203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08035-0 010 $a9786612080357 010 $a1-84615-468-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000750582 035 $a(EBL)1068965 035 $a(OCoLC)815774214 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000160493 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12020086 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000160493 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10190571 035 $a(PQKB)11500473 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1068965 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846154683 035 $a(DE-B1597)674667 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781846154683 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000750582 100 $a20060710d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGaldos and Darwin /$fT.E. Bell 210 $aWoodbridge, Suffolk, UK ;$aRochester, NY $cTamesis$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (189 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aColeccion Tamesis. Serie A, Monografias ;$v225 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 May 2023). 311 $a1-85566-125-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-186) and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; AUTHOR'S NOTE; INTRODUCTION; 1 Social Species; 2 Evolution and Transformation; 3 Degeneracy, Morality and Spirituality; 4 Darwinian Perception and Evolutionary Aesthetics; CONCLUSION; WORKS CITED; INDEX 330 $aDarwinian theory - the big idea of the nineteenth century - and its impact on the writing of Benito Pİ?rez Galdİ?s. Despite the fact that Darwinian theory was perhaps the big idea of the nineteenth century, most critics in the past have assumed that Benito Pİ?rez Galdİ?s would have remained unaffected by this scientific and philosophical revolution. This work contends otherwise, charting the influence of evolutionary theories on Galdİ?s throughout his literary career. From his adaptation of the early nineteenth-century costumbristas' depiction of social species into a more sophisticated portrayal of Madrid society to his treatment of shifting social forces at a time of major socio-economic change, Galdİ?s's outlook is shown to be deeply enmeshed in the Darwinian debate. Attention is paid not only to the hypotheses of Darwin himself, but also for instance to Ernst Haeckel's evolutionary thought, to Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism, and to the radical histology of Santiago Ramİ?n y Cajal. Galdİ?s and Darwin discusses how Spain's greatest novelist since Cervantes imaginatively reworked these epoch-making theories and investigates the impact of science on culture as the Spanish nation approached the twentieth century. T. E. BELL completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Round at Sheffield University. 410 0$aColeccion Tamesis.$nSerie A,$pMonografias ;$v225. 606 $aEvolution in literature 615 0$aEvolution in literature. 676 $a863/.509 700 $aBell$b T. E$01828054 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008437203321 996 $aGaldos and Darwin$94396140 997 $aUNINA