Marking Time : : Romanticism and Evolution /

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

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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 traci...

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Faflak, Joel,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2017
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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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

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