Book ID: CBB567211992

Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution (2017)

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Faflak, Joel (Editor)


University of Toronto Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 336
Language: English

Scholars have long studied the impact of Charles Darwin’s writings on nineteenth-century culture. However, few have ventured to examine the precursors to the ideas of Darwin and others in the Romantic period. Marking Time, edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing its origins to the literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the long nineteenth century. The volume’s contributors revisit key developments in the history of evolution prior to The Origin of Species and explore British and European Romanticism’s negotiation between the classic idea of a great immutable chain of being and modern notions of historical change. Marking Time reveals how Romantic and post-Romantic configurations of historical, socio-cultural, scientific, and philosophical transformation continue to exert a profound influence on critical and cultural thought.

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Authors & Contributors
Schettino, Vincenzo
Harrington, Christopher
Purton, Valerie
Harley, Alexis
Goldstein, Amanda Jo
White, Paul S.
Concepts
Science and literature
Evolution
Romanticism
Darwinism
Science and culture
Science and art
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Great Britain
Germany
Europe
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