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Literature After Darwin: Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939 (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture) by Virginia Richter is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Literature After Darwin: Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939 (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture) about?
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.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Virginia Richter
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780230300446
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Nature, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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