Literature After Darwin Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939
What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Spe...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
2011.
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Colección: | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture.
Springer eBooks. |
Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b36182503*spi |
Sumario: | What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War. |
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Descripción Física: | X, 257 p. |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780230300446 |