Literature after Darwin Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939 |
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| Author:
| Richter, V. |
| Series title: | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-349-32391-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Limited
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| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $95.00USD $54.99 |
Book Description:
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What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.
What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.