Alexis Harley

Autobiologies

Charles Darwin and the Natural History of the Self

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The nineteenth century saw both an explosion of evolutionary ideas and an explosion in autobiographical writing. This book examines the collision between evolutionary thought and practices of self-representation, to show how nineteenth-century natural history refashioned the human subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781611486025
• ISBN-10: 1611486025
• Artikelnr.: 44976102

Autorenporträt

Alexis Harley lectures in English at La Trobe University, Australia, specializing in autobiography and nineteenth-century literature

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Darwinian Selves Part
I: Darwin Chapter 1: Darwin's Family Chapter 2: Naturalist Self-Fashioning:
Darwin and the Beagle Diary Chapter 3: Animal Darwin and the Sympathy
Instinct ... 93 Part II: Variations Chapter 4: Theories of
Self-Transformation Chapter 5: "A natural history of myself": Herbert
Spencer's Individuation Chapter 6: Harriet Martineau's Autothanatography
and the Comtean Self Part III: Autobiologies Chapter 7: De Profundis,
Degeneration and Wilde's Spencerian Individualism Chapter 8: Father and
Son: Darwinism and the Struggle of Two Temperaments Chapter 9: In Memoriam
and the Consolations of Development Conclusion: After the Victorians
Bibliography Index About the Author