Autobiologies : Charles Darwin and the natural history of the self /
Through analysis of memoirs, diaries, letters and natural histories by Victorian authors, this author explores how "evolutionary theories shaped nineteenth-century autobiographical practices and refashioned the human subject" and "how the lived experience of the individual theorist si...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania :
Bucknell University Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | Through analysis of memoirs, diaries, letters and natural histories by Victorian authors, this author explores how "evolutionary theories shaped nineteenth-century autobiographical practices and refashioned the human subject" and "how the lived experience of the individual theorist simultaneously impacted their biological formulations." |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 213 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611486001 (cloth : alk. paper) 1611486009 (cloth : alk. paper) |