Literature After Darwin: Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939

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.

Author: V. Richter
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/14/2010
Pages: 257
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230273405

About the Author
VIRGINIA RICHTER holds a Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Berne, Switzerland. Previously, she taught English and Comparative Literature at the Universities of Munich and Göttingen. She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of Leeds. She has published and lectured widely on Darwinism and on Victorian and Modernist literature and culture.