Literature After Darwin Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859 1939 Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth Century Writing and Culture 1st Edition by V Richter ISBN 0230273408 978-0230273405 by Virginia Richter 9780230273405, 0230273408 instant download after payment.

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ISBN 10: 0230273408

ISBN 13: 978-0230273405 

Author: V. Richter 

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.

Table of contents:

1. Front Matter

2. What Animal? Darwin’s Displacement of Man

3. Creating Connections: Humans, Apes and Missing Links

4. Apes and Ape-men: The Anxiety of Simianation

5. Missing Links and Lost Worlds: The Anxiety of Assimilation

6. Cultural Pessimism and Anthropological Anxiety

7. Back Matter

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