Darwin in Atlantic cultures : evolutionary visions of race, gender, and sexuality /
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2009. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 3 |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8351808 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Descent of Darwin in Atlantic Cultures
- Part I. Genders and Sexualities
- 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
- Part III. Colonization, Nation, and "Progress"
- 10. Simians, Negroes, and 'Missing Link': Evolutionary Discourses and Transatlantic Debates on 'The Negro Question,'
- 11. Evolution in the Backlands: Brazilian Intellectuals and the Development of a Nation