Autore	Edwards Ronald <1964->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina	823.912
Soggetto topico	Literature and science Animals in literature Humanity in literature Ethics in literature Evolution (Biology) in literature Biology in literature
ISBN	0-19-021211-X 0-19-021210-1
Classificazione	SCI070000
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Machine generated contents note: -- PART ONE: NOT MEANT TO KNOW -- Chapter 1: The Paw -- Taking exception / Science and fiction / Science fiction -- Chapter 2: The Ism that Wasn't -- It does not please you / Darwin in the middle / Two windows -- Chapter 3: Don't Meddle -- Movies and Moreau / Sorcery / Life science -- PART TWO: THE THING IS AN ABOMINATION -- Chapter 4: The House of Pain -- No pain, no gain / Moreau 1, Prendick 0 / Pain is real -- Chapter 5: Into the Lab and Onto the Slab -- In the book / How / But why -- PART THREE: POOR BEASTS -- Chapter 6: All the Difference -- Moreau's Man / Prendick's gaze / "No!" / The virago -- Chapter 7: To the Beasts You May Go -- No threshold / Selection and its discontents / The Valley -- PART FOUR: NO ESCAPE -- Chapter 8: That is the Law -- Whose Law? / Hell is real / The Jesus moment / The rebel -- Chapter 9: Beast Monsters -- The taste of blood / The stubborn beast flesh / The horror -- Chapter 10: Big Thinks -- Suffering and philosophy / Science and humanity.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910797965803321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2011
Descrizione fisica	346 p. : ill
Disciplina	809.9336
Altri autori (Persone)	SaulNicholas JamesSimon J
Collana	Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
Soggetto topico	European literature - History and criticism Literature and science - Europe Evolution (Biology) in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-32638-8 9786613326386 94-012-0684-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements / Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James -- The Evolution of Literature / Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James -- The Law of Higgledy-pigglety: Charles Darwin’s Inheritance, his Legacy and the Moral Order of Nature / David Knight -- ‘Our Racial Friends’: Disease, Poverty and Social Darwinism, 1860-1940 / Paul Weindling -- From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps / Joseph Emonds -- Charles Darwin’s Centenary and the Politics and Poetics of Parenting: Inheritance, Variation, and the Aesthetic Legacy of Samuel Butler / David Amigoni -- By An Evolutionist: Poetic Language in Chambers and Tennyson / Anna Barton -- Victorian Evolutionary Criticism and the Pitfalls of Consilience / John Holmes -- H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the End of Literature / Simon J. James -- Mind in Modern Fiction: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives after Darwin / Patricia Waugh -- E-Volutionary Fictions: The Darwinian Algorithm in Literature and Computer Games / Alistair Brown -- Value Judgements and Functional Roles: Carroll’s Quarrel With Pinker / Jon Adams -- The Book of Nature: Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Literature / Wendy Wheeler -- Men, Monkeys, Monsters and Evolution in Fiction from the Fin-de-siècle to the Present / Christopher Lloyd -- Zola and Darwin: A Reassessment / David Baguley -- On the Evolution of Humanity and the Oppressions of Darwinism in French Postwar Fiction / Louise Lyle -- Houellebecq, Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology / Douglas Morrey -- ‘Once in Human Nature, a Thing Cannot be Driven Out’: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Wilhelm Jensen’s The Legacy of Blood (1869). An Early Response to Darwin / Nicholas Saul -- ‘Live like a Man and not like a Monkey’: Nietzsche’s Philosophic Vitalism and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution / John A. McCarthy -- ‘Creative Evolution:’ Bergson’s Critique of Science and its Reception in the German-Speaking World / David Midgley -- Evolutionary Psychology as a Heuristic in Literary Studies / Katja Mellmann -- Contributors -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457806103321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2011
Descrizione fisica	346 p. : ill
Disciplina	809.9336
Altri autori (Persone)	SaulNicholas JamesSimon J
Collana	Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
Soggetto topico	European literature - History and criticism Literature and science - Europe Evolution (Biology) in literature
ISBN	1-283-32638-8 9786613326386 94-012-0684-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements / Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James -- The Evolution of Literature / Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James -- The Law of Higgledy-pigglety: Charles Darwin’s Inheritance, his Legacy and the Moral Order of Nature / David Knight -- ‘Our Racial Friends’: Disease, Poverty and Social Darwinism, 1860-1940 / Paul Weindling -- From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps / Joseph Emonds -- Charles Darwin’s Centenary and the Politics and Poetics of Parenting: Inheritance, Variation, and the Aesthetic Legacy of Samuel Butler / David Amigoni -- By An Evolutionist: Poetic Language in Chambers and Tennyson / Anna Barton -- Victorian Evolutionary Criticism and the Pitfalls of Consilience / John Holmes -- H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the End of Literature / Simon J. James -- Mind in Modern Fiction: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives after Darwin / Patricia Waugh -- E-Volutionary Fictions: The Darwinian Algorithm in Literature and Computer Games / Alistair Brown -- Value Judgements and Functional Roles: Carroll’s Quarrel With Pinker / Jon Adams -- The Book of Nature: Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Literature / Wendy Wheeler -- Men, Monkeys, Monsters and Evolution in Fiction from the Fin-de-siècle to the Present / Christopher Lloyd -- Zola and Darwin: A Reassessment / David Baguley -- On the Evolution of Humanity and the Oppressions of Darwinism in French Postwar Fiction / Louise Lyle -- Houellebecq, Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology / Douglas Morrey -- ‘Once in Human Nature, a Thing Cannot be Driven Out’: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Wilhelm Jensen’s The Legacy of Blood (1869). An Early Response to Darwin / Nicholas Saul -- ‘Live like a Man and not like a Monkey’: Nietzsche’s Philosophic Vitalism and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution / John A. McCarthy -- ‘Creative Evolution:’ Bergson’s Critique of Science and its Reception in the German-Speaking World / David Midgley -- Evolutionary Psychology as a Heuristic in Literary Studies / Katja Mellmann -- Contributors -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910807391603321

Autore	Saul Nicholas
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource
Disciplina	830.9
Collana	Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik
Soggetto topico	German literature - History and criticism Evolution (Biology) in literature
ISBN	90-04-42707-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910794579603321

Autore	Carroll Joseph
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (305 p.)
Disciplina	823.80936 823/.80936
Soggetto topico	Darwin, Charles English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism English fiction Evolution (Biology) in literature Human beings in literature Nature in literature Social Darwinism in literature Theory, etc
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-135-87894-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Part 1 Mapping the Disciplinary Landscape; 1. The Use of Arnold in a Darwinian World; 2. Biology and Poststructuralism; 3. ""Theory,"" Anti-Theory, and Empirical Criticism; 4. Out of Eden and to the Left: A Review of John Ellis's Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities; 5. Literary Study and Evolutionary Theory: A Review of Books by Alexander Argyros, Walter Koch, Karl Kroeber, Robert Storey, Frederick Turner, and Mark Turner 6. Pinker, Dickens, and the Functions of Literature7. Wilson's Consilience and Literary Study; 8. Ecocriticism, Cognitive Ethology, and the Environments of Victorian Fiction; Part 2 Adaptationist Literary Studies: Theory and Practical Criticism; 1. The Deep Structure of Literary Representations; 2. Universals in Literary Study; 3. Human Universals and Literary Meaning: A Sociobiological Critique of Pride and Prejudice, Villette, O Pioneers!, Anna of the Five Towns, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles; 4. Organism, Environment, and Literature 5. Adaptationist Criteria of Literary Value: Assessing Kurten's Dance of the Tiger, AuePs The Clan of the Cave Bear, and Golding's The Inheritors6. Human Nature and Literary Meaning: A Theoretical Model Illustrated with a Critique of Pride and Prejudice; Part 3 Darwin and Darwinism; 1. The Origin of Charles Darwin: A Review of Three Darwin Biographies; 2. Modern Darwinism and the Pseudo-Revolutions of Stephen Jay Gould; References; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463160703321