The of Literature Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures

Edited by Nicholas Saul and Simon ). James

Amsterdam - New York, NY 2011 Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Nicholas Saul and Simon]. James Introduction: The Evolution of Literature 9

David Knight The Law of Higgledy-pigglety: 's Inheritance, his Legacy and the Moral Order of Nature 19

Paul Weindling 'Our Racial Friends': Disease, Poverty and Social , 1860-1940 35

Joseph Esmonds From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps 51

David Amigoni Charles Darwin's Centenary and the Politics and Poetics of Parenting: Inheritance, Variation, and the Aesthetic Legacy of Samuel Butler 73

Anna Barton By An Evolutionist: Poetic Language in Chambers and Tennyson 87

John Holmes Victorian Evolutionary Criticism and the Pitfalls of Consilience 101

Simon J. James H.G. Wells's and the End of Literature 113

Patricia Waugh Mind in Modern Fiction: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives after Darwin 125

Alistair Brown E-Volutionary Fictions: The Darwinian Algorithm in Literature and Computer Games 141 Jon Adams Value Judgements and Functional Roles: Carroll's Quarrel With Pinker 155

Wendy Wheeler The Book of Nature: Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Literature 171

Christopher Lloyd Men, Monkeys, Monsters and Evolution in Fiction from the Fin-de-siecle to the Present 185

David Baguley Zola and Darwin: A Reassessment 201

Louise Lyle On the Evolution of Humanity and the Oppressions of Darwinism in French Postwar Fiction 213

Douglas Morrey Houellebecq, Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology 227

Nicholas Saul '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 239

John A. McCarthy 'Live like a Man and not like a Monkey': Nietzsche's Philosophic Vitalism and Darwin's Theory of Evolution 255

David Midgley 'Creative Evolution': Bergson's Critique of Science and its Reception in the German-Speaking World 283

Katja Mellmann

Evolutionary Psychology as a Heuristic in Literary Studies 299

Contributors 319

Index 323