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Pre-Darwinian Species Change: Reincarnation and Transformism in George Sand’s Evenor et Leucippe (2018)

Mathias, Manon (Author)

Journal of Literature and Science
Volume: 11
Issue: 1
Pages: 33-49
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

DOI: 10.12929

URI: http://www.literatureandscience.org/volume-10-issue-2-2017/

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The spiritual belief in reincarnation and the scientific theory of transformism both provided inspiration for theorists of social progress in nineteenth-century France. Until now, however, the connections between the two views have not been revealed. This article examines the relationship between reincarnation and transformism in a forgotten text of 1856 by the novelist George Sand. Sand is mainly known today for her canonical works of the 1830s and 1840s, for her views on marriage, and for her allegedly simplistic idealism. There has been no major study on Sand and science. Her work is worth studying from this perspective, however, not only due to her extensive engagement with geology, botany and entomology, but because of the different form of scientific literature she offers.

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