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Scholars have long studied the impact of Charles Darwin’s writings on nineteenth-century culture. However, few have ventured to examine the precursors to the ideas of Darwin and others in the Romantic period. Marking Time, edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing i...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-305402021-11-12T16:36:12Z Marking Time Faflak, Joel Literature Charles Darwin Evolution Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Immanuel Kant Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thomas Robert Malthus Scholars have long studied the impact of Charles Darwin’s writings on nineteenth-century culture. However, few have ventured to examine the precursors to the ideas of Darwin and others in the Romantic period. Marking Time, edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing its origins to the literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the long nineteenth century. The volume’s contributors revisit key developments in the history of evolution prior to The Origin of Species and explore British and European Romanticism’s negotiation between the classic idea of a great immutable chain of being and modern notions of historical change. Marking Time reveals how Romantic and post-Romantic configurations of historical, socio-cultural, scientific, and philosophical transformation continue to exert a profound influence on critical and cultural thought 2018-02-01 23:55:55 2020-03-20 03:00:28 2020-04-01T13:00:40Z 2020-04-01T13:00:40Z 2018-03-12 book 645367 OCN: 1030817360 9781487518165 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30540 eng application/pdf n/a 645367.pdf University of Toronto Press 101597 4af200cf-cd4b-42da-b77f-53784aeda421 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781487518165 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 101597 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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