The Evolution 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: Charles Darwin's Inheritance, his Legacy and the Moral Order of Nature 19
Paul Weindling 'Our Racial Friends': Disease, Poverty and Social Darwinism, 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 The Time Machine 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