Literature After Darwin Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939
Description
What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.
Keywords
Literary CriticismSemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceHistorySocial HistoryEuropeGreat BritainEuropeanLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeAnthropologyCultural & Social
2010Book
Author(s)Virginia Richter
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230273405
LanguageEnglish
