Darwin in Atlantic cultures : evolutionary visions of race, gender, and sexuality /
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2010. |
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| Description: | vii, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 3 Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 3. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7905939 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Descent of Darwin in Atlantic Cultures
- Part I. Genders and Sexuaiities
- 1. Strange Birds: Friedrich Nietzsche, Djuna Barnes, and Queer Evolution
- 2. "Sexual Selection" and the Social Revolution: Anarchist Eugenics and Radical Darwinism in the United States, 1850-1910
- 3. The Birds and the Bees: Darwin's Evolutionary Approach to Sexuality
- 4. Love in the Age of Darwinian Reproduction
- 5. Victorian Birdsongs: Sexual Selection, Gender, and Darwin's Theory of Music
- Part II. Race and Difference
- 6. Rise and Fall: Degeneration, Historical Determinism, and William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!
- 7. What Is It? Difference, Darwin, and the Victorian Freak Show
- 8. The Mocking Meme: Popular Darwinism, Illustrative Graphics, and Editorial Cartooning
- 9. Selective Affinities: Darwin's Theory of Evolution in Adventure Novels by Jack London and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Part III. Colonization, Nation, and "Progress"
- 10. Simians, Negroes, and the "Missing Link": Evolutionary Discourses and Transatlantic Debates on "The Negro Question"
- 11. Evolution in the Backlands: Brazilian Intellectuals and the Development of a Nation
- 12. The Evolution of the West; Darwinist Visions of Race and Progress in Roosevelt and Turner
- 13. Darwinism in Spanish America: Union and Diversity in JoséRodó and José Vasconcelos
- 14. The Miseducation of Henry Adams: Fantasies of Race, Citizenship, and Darwinian Dynamos
- Contributors
- Index