Biological discourses : the language of science and literature around 1900 / Robert Craig and Ina Linge (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Craig, Robert, 1987- editor.

Linge, Ina, 1988- editor.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Cultural history and literary imagination ; v. 27.

Cultural history and literary imagination ; vol. 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--20th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

European literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Literature and science--Europe--History.

Literature and science.

Science in literature.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 433 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction: Can literature and science share a language? / Robert Craig and Ina Linge

Legacies of evolution / introduced by Staffan Müller-Wille. Elena Borelli: "The beast within: Darwinism and desire in the Italian fin de siècle"

Anahita Rouyan: "Resisting excelsior biology: H.G. Wells's The time machine and late Victorian (mis)representations of Charles Darwin's Theory of evolution"

Pauline Moret-Jankus: Jules Soury and Paul Bourget, or the influence of Haeckelian biology on fin-de-siècle French literature

Godela Weiss-Sussex: "The monist novel as site of female agency:Grete Meisel-Hess's The intellectuals (1911)"

Bill Dodd: "Darwin's imperialist canvas: Dolf Sternberger's panorama or views of/from the nineteenth century (1938) as cultural history in the shadow of national socialism"

Constructions of desire / introduced by Heike Bauer. Michael Eggers: "Cryptogamic kissing: Adalbert Stifter's novella The kiss of sentze (1866) and The reproduction of mosses"

Charlotte Woodford: "Biology, desire and a longing for heimat in Lou Andreas-Salomé's Novel das haus and her essay "Gedanken über das Liebesproblem"

Linda Leskau: "Botanical perversions: on the depathologisation of perversions in texts by Alfred Döblin and Hanns Heinz Ewers"

Cyd Sturgess: "(Re- )constructing the boundaries of desire: sexual inversion and Sapphic self-fashioning in Josine Reuling's Terug naar het eiland (1937)"

Projections of otherness / introduced by David Midgley. Aisha Nazeer: "Scientific and Gothic constructions of the degenerate, racial "other": reading the abject in Marryat's The blood of the vampire and Haggard's She"

Michael Wainwright: "Narratives of helminthology: Thomas Spencer Cobbold, Bram Stoker, and The lair of the white worm

David Midgley: "A journey into the interior: the self as other in Robert Müller's novel Tropen"

The poet, the senses, and the sense of a world / introduced by David Midgley. Sarah Cain: "Attention and efficiency: the experimental psychology of modernism in Harvard"

David Wachter: "Amoeba, dragonfly, gazelle: animal poetics around 1908 (Möbius Uexküll Rilke)"

Robert Craig: "The city as creature: reconfiguring the creaturely self in Alfred Föblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781906165789

1906165785

OCLC:

974477768