Biological Time, Historical Time : : Transfers and Transformations in 19th Century Literature /

Biological Time, Historical Time : : Transfers and Transformations in 19th Century Literature / / Niklas Bender, Gisèle Séginger.

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Biological Time, Historical Time presents a new approach to 19th century thought and literature: by focussing on the subject of time, it offers a new perspective on the exchanges between French and German literary texts on the one hand and scientific disciplines on the other. Hence, the rivalling in...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Bender, Niklas,
Séginger, Gisèle,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, , Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Faux Titre 431.
Physical Description:1 online resource (423 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • The Authors
  • Introduction / Niklas Bender and Gisèle Séginger
  • Rethinking the Order of Time
  • From Biblical Time to Darwinian Time: Discourses on the Living World in the 18th and 19th Centuries / Pascal Duris
  • Memory Strata, Geology and Change of Historical Paradigm in France around 1830 / Paule Petitier
  • Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, “maître Georges” and the Advance of Nature / Claude Blanckaert
  • From Biological Time to Historical Time: the Category of “Development” (Entwicklung) in the Historical Thought of Herder, Kant, Hegel, and Marx / Christophe Bouton
  • “O man! wilt thou never conceive that thou art but an ephemeron?”: the Reception of Geological Deep Time in the Late 18th Century / David Schulz
  • Atavism and Heredity
  • The Law of Progress, Atavism, and Prehistory in the Belle Époque / Arnaud Hurel
  • Nietzsche, or Culture Put to the Test at the Timescale of Heredity / Emmanuel Salanskis
  • Zola, Hereditability of Character and Hereditability of Deviation: after a Remark by Bergson in L’Évolution Créatrice / Arnaud François
  • Life, Sex and Temporality in Zola’s La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret / Rudolf Behrens
  • Nature and Culture
  • Time of History and Time of Nature in the Historical Novels of Victor Hugo / Niklas Bender
  • Historical Time, Cultural Time, and Biological Time in Baudelaire / Thomas Klinkert
  • Evolution and Time in the Chants de Maldoror / Frank Jäger
  • Memory of the Body in Proust: Historical Time and Biological Time / Edward Bizub
  • Poetics of Time
  • The Poetics of Restored Time: Balzac, His Age and the Figure of Cuvier / Hugues Marchal
  • The Evolution of Social Species in Balzac’s Comédie humaine / Sandra Collet
  • Time as Imagined in the Evolutionary Epic / Nicolas Wanlin
  • Evolutionism and Successivity in Antediluviana, Poème géologique by Ernest Cotty (1876) / Yohann Ringuedé
  • End of the World, End of Time: the Theory of Evolution and Its Fate in the Novel of Anticipation / Claire Barel-Moisan
  • A Biologist Literary History: August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Franco-German Natural Sciences / Stefan Knödler
  • Biology and Ideology
  • Evolutionary Time and Revolutionary Time (Michelet, Flaubert, Zola) / Juliette Azoulai
  • Michelet and La Mer: Biology and the Philosophy of History / Gisèle Séginger
  • “Il faut manger et être mangé pour que le monde vive”: the Zolian Belly amidst Evolution, Revolution, and Convolutions / Carine Goutaland
  • Gobineau’s Heroes Are Ageless / Pierre-Louis Rey
  • Darwinus anarchistus explodens: Science and the Legend of the Struggle for Life (Louise Michel) / Claude Rétat
  • Back Matter
  • Index.

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