Literature after Darwin :

Richter, Virginia.

Literature after Darwin : human beasts in western fiction, 1859-1939 / by Virginia Richter. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - x, 257 p. ; 23 cm. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture . - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. .

What animal? Darwin's displacement of man -- Creating connections: humans, apes, and missing links -- Apes and ape-men: the anxiety of simianation -- Missing links and lost worlds: the anxiety of assimilation -- Cultural pessimism and anthropological anxiety.

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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 --Influence.


English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Evolution (Biology) in literature.
Human beings--Animal nature.
Human beings in literature.
Apes in literature.
Human evolution in literature.
Literature and science--History--19th century.
Literature and science--History--20th century.

823.809 / RIC

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