Darwin in Atlantic cultures : evolutionary visions of race, gender, and sexuality / edited by Jeannette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Jeannette Eileen, 1970-

Sharp, Patrick B., 1967-

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Series:

Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 3.

Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Influence.

Darwin, Charles.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Social Darwinism.

Physical Description:

vii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Contents:

Part I Genders and Sexuaiities

1 Strange Birds: Friedrich Nietzsche, Djuna Barnes, and Queer Evolution / Robert Azzarello 11

2 "Sexual Selection" and the Social Revolution: Anarchist Eugenics and Radical Darwinism in the United States, 1850-1910 / Jesse F. Battan 33

3 The Birds and the Bees: Darwin's Evolutionary Approach to Sexuality / Kimberly A. Hamlin 53

4 Love in the Age of Darwinian Reproduction / Mark B. Feldman 73

5 Victorian Birdsongs: Sexual Selection, Gender, and Darwin's Theory of Music / Laura M. Bolt 90

Part II Race and Difference

6 Rise and Fall: Degeneration, Historical Determinism, and William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom! / Christy A. Cannariato 111

7 What Is It? Difference, Darwin, and the Victorian Freak Show / Lindsey B. Churchill 128

8 The Mocking Meme: Popular Darwinism, Illustrative Graphics, and Editorial Cartooning / G. Bruce Retallack 143

9 Selective Affinities: Darwin's Theory of Evolution in Adventure Novels by Jack London and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / Herbert Klein 170

Part III Colonization, Nation, and "Progress"

10 Simians, Negroes, and the "Missing Link": Evolutionary Discourses and Transatlantic Debates on "The Negro Question" / Jeannette Eileen Jones 191

11 Evolution in the Backlands: Brazilian Intellectuals and the Development of a Nation / Gildo Magalhês Santos 208

12 The Evolution of the West; Darwinist Visions of Race and Progress in Roosevelt and Turner / Patrick B.Sharp 225

13 Darwinism in Spanish America: Union and Diversity in JosŘod ̤and Jos ̌Vasconcelos / Anriana Novoa 237

14 The Miseducation of Henry Adams: Fantasies of Race, Citizenship, and Darwinian Dynamos / John P. Brunt 260.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

9780415872348

0415872340

9780203863336

020386333X

OCLC:

326685083

Publisher Number:

99935961830