Marking Time : : Romanticism and Evolution / / Joel Faflak.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Faflak, Joel,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Scholars have long studied the impact of Charles Darwin's writings on nineteenth-century culture. However, few have ventured to examine the precursors to the ideas of Darwin and others in the Romantic period. Marking Time, edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing its origins to the literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the long nineteenth century. The volume's contributors revisit key developments in the history of evolution prior to The Origin of Species and explore British and European Romanticism's negotiation between the classic idea of a great immutable chain of being and modern notions of historical change. Marking Time reveals how Romantic and post-Romantic configurations of historical, socio-cultural, scientific, and philosophical transformation continue to exert a profound influence on critical and cultural thought.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution / Faflak, Joel -- Part One: Romanticism's Darwin -- 1. Plants, Analogy, and Perfection: Loose and Strict Analogies / Beer, Gillian -- 2. Darwin and the Mobility of Species / Bewell, Alan -- 3. Darwin's Ideas / Rowlinson, Matthew -- Part Two: Romantic Temporalities -- 4. Deep Time in the South Pacific: Scientific Voyaging and the Ancient/ Primitive Analogy / Heringman, Noah -- 5. Malthus Our Contemporary? Toward a Political Economy of Sex / Mclane, Maureen N. -- Part Three: Goethe and the Contigencies of Life -- 6. Structure and Advancement in Goethe's Morphology / Zemplén, Gábor Áron -- 7. Vertiginous Life: Goethe, Bones, and Italy / Piper, Andrew -- 8. Taking Chances / Kelley, Theresa M. -- Part Four: Evolutionary Idealisms -- 9. Did Goethe and Schelling Endorse Species Evolution? / Richards, Robert J. -- 10. The Vitality of Idealism: Life and Evolution in Schelling's and Hegel's Systems / Rajan, Tilottama -- 11. Degeneration: Inversions of Teleology / Steigerwald, Joan -- Contributors -- Index