American Romanticism and the Evolutionary Idea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, Jennifer J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baker, Jennifer J., 1968-.

Romanticism--United States.

Romanticism.

Evolution in literature.

Local Subjects:

Baker, Jennifer J., 1968-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Evolutionary thought transformed nineteenth-century American intellectual life.This book details how it shaped literature in the middle decades of the century and intersected with Romantic conceptions of selfhood, society, and the history of life.Jennifer J.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface: Taking Stock of the New Materialism

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A "Natural History in a New Sense"

One: Evolutionism and Self-Culture

Two: Black Origins and Black Futurity

Three: The Romantic Fossil: Belonging to Prehistory

Four: Indian Antiquity and the "Aboriginal Self"

Five: Art and the Laws of Development

Coda The Binary Star of Romantic Evolutionism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Baker, Jennifer J. American Romanticism and the Evolutionary Idea

ISBN:

9781503647725

OCLC:

1607932721