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.