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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richter, Virginia (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural History.
Cultural Theory.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Literary Theory.
Social History.
British literature.
Civilization > History.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Literature > Philosophy.
Social history.
Great Britain > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 257 pages)
ISBN:9780230300446
DOI:10.1057/9780230300446