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...Yoon Sun Lee Abstract Although accounts of the realist novel have not always adequately examined the experience of movement through space, this embodied epistemology is critical to the genre's development. Drawing on the physiology of perception as investigated by Erasmus Darwin and others, Scott...

... novel form around the attractions and reactions that organized social and psychological life in his city. Victorian sciences—particularly the work of George Henry Lewes and Charles Darwin—were turning to “net-work” to describe the plastic processes underpinning biological life. Dickens's fiction used...

...Jane F. Thrailkill Works Cited Darwin Erasmus . Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life . Vol. 1 . Boston : Thomas and Andrews , 1809 . Grosz Elizabeth . The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely . Durham : Duke UP , 2004 . Perry Ralph Barton...

...JONATHAN GREENBERG JOSEPH CARROLL, Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. xxvii + 276, hardcover $85.00, paper, $23.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 The Descent of Theory JOSEPH CARROLL, Literary...

... of the experience of pain. Where Ablow differs from these studies is in the philosophical rigor she brings to the task, as she ranges across work by John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Hardy. Like George Eliot, she shifts her gaze from the whole human horizon...

..., Adam Bede , Victorian board games, and Darwin's account of species? What connects Maxwell's demon and Daniel Deronda ? The answer, it turns out, is contingency. In this thoughtful and well-researched interdisciplinary account, Tina Young Choi ranges far and wide to find examples of the Victorian...

... and cognitive or neurological sciences to get too cozy. In recent cognitive approaches to literature (CAL) and the work of so-called literary Darwinism, he finds literary scholars embracing theories of mind that shortchange the complex phenomenon that is human emotion. Consilience , as promoted by A. O. Wilson...

... that the phrase is Darwin’s, from the end of The Origin of Species, which he “­hallucinated . . . ​out of the hairdryer’s drone, and confused it with the radio news” (55). The domestic com- forts initially associated with the phrase give way to a much more precise articula- tion based on Darwin...

... but only at the expense of disturbing reliable boundaries between them, and to this inheritance Charles Darwin adds the emphasis on extinction, further severing the idea of man from any simple identity with the flux of biological matter. (Duncan's account of the lesser-known players in this long revolution...

... was arguably instigated by the publication of Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology and Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. Both sensation fiction and medical graphing technology coincide with a climax of uniformitarian and evolutionary narrative in the greater culture. Lyell’s theory accounted for geo...

... of Language . Trans. Richard Howard. Berkeley: U of California P, 1986 . Beer , Gillian . Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction . London: Routledge, 1983 . Brooks , Peter . Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative...

... but that in fact is determined by human actions aimed at controlling chance. The appearance of chance in Hardy may well respond, as Beer argues, to culture's new relation to determinism after Darwin. Hardy, who was a keen reader of Darwin, certainly adopts a similar vacillation or shiftiness with respect...

... Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles climate change form historicism The single illustration in Darwin's On the Origin of Species is a treelike fan of dotted branches scored by fourteen horizontal lines. The fan represents the divergence of species over time, and each of the lines...

... activity. Scarcity provides the logic that organizes social life under capitalism and explains nature after Malthus and Darwin. At some point in the past four hundred years, it became “the irremovable horizon of everyday life” ( Panayotakis, “Capitalism's” 94 ). 1 As usually happens with ideological...

... to philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Darwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and, especially, William James and Henri Bergson, vitalist philosophers who “have an investment in affective transmission that blurs boundaries between self and other” ( 65 ). One of the most far-reaching implications of this book...

...-influence, and sometimes even seem to merge. The novel teaches its readers to pity the sheep and to push beyond an exclusively human-centered perspective. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Beer , Gillian . Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth...

... Arts , 1956 . Bakhtin M. M. , and Holquist Michael . The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays . Austin : U of Texas P , 1981 . Barthes Roland . The Rustle of Language . Trans. Howard Richard . Berkeley : U of California P , 1989 . Beer Gillian . Darwin’s...

..., Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Works Cited Aristotle . Politics . Trans. Barker Ernest . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1998 . Beer Gillian . Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2000...

... Crane . Ed. Fredson Bowers. 10 vols . Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1969–76 . Crummell , Alexander . “The Destined Superiority of the Negro.” 1877. Destiny and Race: Selected Writings, 1840–1898 . Ed. Wilson Jeremiah Moses. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1992 . Darwin , Charles...

... of cultural kgerrt any. Price gives us insight into the secret life of aesthetic form and how it evolves, a word deliberately chosen, as Price draws a part of her ideas from Gillian Beer's famous reading in Darwin's Plots of the relationship between narrative and evolutionary theory. The novel's...