Christine Lehleiter

Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining novels, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and collections of anatomical monstrosities, Origins Matter delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications of emerging notions of heredity for the conceptualization of selfhood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781611486230
• ISBN-10: 1611486238
• Artikelnr.: 47710157

Autorenporträt

By Christine Lehleiter

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Notes on Translations Acknowledgments Introduction:
Between Freedom and Determination One: The Discovery of Heredity Two:
Incest and Inbreeding Three: Cross-breeding and Hybridization Four: From
Blood to Trauma Bibliography About the Author Index