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Autobiologies
Charles Darwin and the Natural History of the Self
Langbeschreibung
What does heredity mean for identity? What role does the individual have in shaping a personal or a human history? What is the ethical status of seemingly biologically determined behaviours? What does individual death mean in the light of species extinction? Autobiologies explores the importance of such questions in Victorian life writing. Analysing memoirs, diaries, letters, and natural histories Alexis Harley demonstrates how theories of natural selection shaped nineteenth-century autobiographical practices and refashioned the human subject-and also how the lived experience of the individual theorist simultaneously impacted their biological formulations.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Darwinian SelvesPart I: DarwinChapter 1: Darwin's FamilyChapter 2: Naturalist Self-Fashioning: Darwin and the Beagle DiaryChapter 3: Animal Darwin and the Sympathy Instinct ... 93Part II: VariationsChapter 4: Theories of Self-TransformationChapter 5: "A natural history of myself": Herbert Spencer's IndividuationChapter 6: Harriet Martineau's Autothanatography and the Comtean SelfPart III: AutobiologiesChapter 7: De Profundis, Degeneration and Wilde's Spencerian IndividualismChapter 8: Father and Son: Darwinism and the Struggle of Two TemperamentsChapter 9: In Memoriam and the Consolations of DevelopmentConclusion: After the VictoriansBibliographyIndexAbout the Author
Alexis Harley lectures in English at La Trobe University, Australia, specializing in autobiography and nineteenth-century literature
ISBN-13:
9781611486025
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.08.2017
Seiten:
234
Autor:
Alexis Harley
Gewicht:
346 g
Format:
229x152x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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