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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 449–482.
Published: 01 December 2018
... or anthropological, heritage—when she represents characters’ undeserved, uncompensated pains. Woolf’s thinking aligns her with Charles Darwin in the natural sciences. Like Darwin, Woolf makes tragic chance inseparable from the theater of life. This essay reads Woolf’s oft-cited rejection of teleological form and her...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 423–444.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Jonathan Greenberg Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction: Darwin and Literary Studies
Introduction: Darwin and Literary Studies
Jonathan Greenberg...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 547–571.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Susan McCabe Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Survival of the Queerly Fit: Darwin, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop
Survival of the Queerly Fit:
Darwin, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop
Susan McCabe
Darwin taught us that animals (like literary texts) are cultural...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 640–644.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Daniel A. Novak Darwin’s Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution , by Prodger Philip , Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009 . 320 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Daniel A. Novak
Darwin at the Edge of the Visible
Darwin’s Camera: Art...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 268–282.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Zachariah Pickard Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 BAI
Natural History and Epiphany:
Elizabeth Bishop’s Darwin Letter
Zachariah Pickard
riting in his Autobiography about the joys of beetle collecting and,
particularly, the pleasure of discovering a new...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 572–596.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Keith Leslie Johnson Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Keith Leslie Johnson
Darwin’s Bulldog and Huxley’s Ape
Keith Leslie Johnson
One of the initial difficulties in assessing the impact of a figure like
Darwin on literary history is determining to what extent his...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 385–404.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Heather Cass White This essay presents the textual history of Moore’s “lost” poem “Pigeons” and argues for the poem’s importance in unifying two major strains of Moore criticism: that pertaining to her Protestant faith, and that pertaining to her careful reading of Darwin. The essay suggests...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 634–639.
Published: 01 December 2009
... time the twenty-three-
year-old Charles Darwin saw the island of Tierra del Fuego off South
America and an epilogue that captures Darwin’s first impressions of the
Galápagos Islands. These encounters during Darwin’s trip on the Beagle in
the 1830s have come to be regarded as central...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 93–124.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Jonathan Greenberg Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 HI
Why Can’t Biologists Read Poetry?
Ian McEwan s Enduring Love
Jonathan Greenberg
Since the reinvention of social Darwinism as sociobiology in the 1970s,
and particularly since the reinvention of sociobiology...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 277–284.
Published: 01 June 2011
... to—“the Darwin Letter,” the famous letter of 1964 to
Anne Stevenson in which Bishop writes that
Dreams, works of art (some) glimpses of the always-more-suc-
cessful surrealism of everyday life, unexpected moments of em-
pathy (is it catch a peripheral vision of whatever it is one can...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 445–484.
Published: 01 December 2009
... Darwin is perhaps the
great arbiter standing behind her conception of habit. She picks up on an
undercurrent of his argument—that repetition is a useful, indeed a nec-
essary, part of human sociality—and explores its reach and consequence.
Like him, she concentrates attention on microevents...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 556–581.
Published: 01 December 2012
... it in explicitly Darwinian terms:
The process of “natural selection,” as Mr. Darwin called it, co-
operating with a tendency to variation and to inheritance of
variations, he has shown to be a chief cause . . . of that evolution
556Twentieth-Century Literature 58.4 Winter 2012...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 411–416.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... Defining vitalist philosophy as the “focus on emergent processes that develop in unpredictable ways and sustain themselves by means of their internal logic” (3), Moses draws together the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin with the work of Henri Bergson, William James, and Friedrich Nietzsche, in order...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 510–546.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and Tooby).2
Perhaps because of the field’s current aura of both glamour and threat,
scholars have paid little attention to its own evolution. The notion of an
evolutionary psychology actually arose along with Darwinism in the late
nineteenth century, much earlier than the 1975 academic birth...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 485–509.
Published: 01 December 2009
... on Darwin’s evolutionary biology
to imply that willed, targeted interference with evolutionary processes
causes mostly pain, since all living beings have evolved in conjunction
with their environments. While Pygmalion—not Moreau—is sometimes
read as an educational success story, the works are equally...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): vi–x.
Published: 01 June 2007
.... Rendered harmonious by what I
would call an interpretive tour de force, these differing and disso
nant discourses are aimed at offering “less a Darwinian reading of
culture than a cultural reading of Darwinism” on the disciplinary
basis of the humanities, especially literary criticism. The essay...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 261–288.
Published: 01 September 2019
... past and the human present—precisely the parallel horror haunting this double and doubling dream. The West has long been fascinated by missing links, from the American banker William Bowles’s (1877) letter to Charles Darwin postulating the existence of a race of “speaking monkeys” who “pollute...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 597–617.
Published: 01 December 2009
... ver-
sions of Darwinism. The first version, cloaked in the disinterested pose of
scientific, anthropological enquiry, soon reveals that it sees struggle and
competition in racial as well as sexual and generational terms. The second
version moves away from struggle to focus on the continuity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 239–260.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of maternal and paternal traits. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Hofstra University 2024 Charles Darwin lyric theory modernism modernist studies Observations science of heredity In a 1963 interview with Donald Hall, Marianne Moore (1969 : 34) answered a question...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 55–84.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Society 84 , nos. 1–4 : lxi – xcviii . Beecher Charles Emerson . 1898 . “ The Origin and Significance of Spines: A Study in Evolution [IV] .” American Journal of Science 6 , no. 34 : 329 – 59 . Beer Gillian . 2009 . Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George...
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