UID:
almafu_9961373868902883
Format:
1 online resource (423 pages).
ISBN:
90-04-38516-9
Series Statement:
Faux Titre ; v. 431
Content:
Biological Time, Historical Time presents a new approach to 19th century thought and literature: by focussing on the subject of time, it offers a new perspective on the exchanges between French and German literary texts on the one hand and scientific disciplines on the other. Hence, the rivalling influences of the historical sciences and of the life sciences on literary texts are explored, texts from various scientific domains – medicine, natural history, biology, history, and multiple forms of vulgarisation – are investigated. Literary texts are analysed in their participation in and transformation of the scientific imagination. Special attention is accorded to the temporal dimension: this allows for an innovative account of key concepts of 19th century culture.
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Front Matter --
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Copyright page --
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The Authors --
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Introduction /
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Rethinking the Order of Time --
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From Biblical Time to Darwinian Time: Discourses on the Living World in the 18th and 19th Centuries /
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Memory Strata, Geology and Change of Historical Paradigm in France around 1830 /
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Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, “maître Georges” and the Advance of Nature /
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From Biological Time to Historical Time: the Category of “Development” (Entwicklung) in the Historical Thought of Herder, Kant, Hegel, and Marx /
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“O man! wilt thou never conceive that thou art but an ephemeron?”: the Reception of Geological Deep Time in the Late 18th Century /
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Atavism and Heredity --
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The Law of Progress, Atavism, and Prehistory in the Belle Époque /
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Nietzsche, or Culture Put to the Test at the Timescale of Heredity /
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Zola, Hereditability of Character and Hereditability of Deviation: after a Remark by Bergson in L’Évolution Créatrice /
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Life, Sex and Temporality in Zola’s La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret /
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Nature and Culture --
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Time of History and Time of Nature in the Historical Novels of Victor Hugo /
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Historical Time, Cultural Time, and Biological Time in Baudelaire /
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Evolution and Time in the Chants de Maldoror /
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Memory of the Body in Proust: Historical Time and Biological Time /
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Poetics of Time --
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The Poetics of Restored Time: Balzac, His Age and the Figure of Cuvier /
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The Evolution of Social Species in Balzac’s Comédie humaine /
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Time as Imagined in the Evolutionary Epic /
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Evolutionism and Successivity in Antediluviana, Poème géologique by Ernest Cotty (1876) /
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End of the World, End of Time: the Theory of Evolution and Its Fate in the Novel of Anticipation /
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A Biologist Literary History: August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Franco-German Natural Sciences /
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Biology and Ideology --
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Evolutionary Time and Revolutionary Time (Michelet, Flaubert, Zola) /
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Michelet and La Mer: Biology and the Philosophy of History /
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“Il faut manger et être mangé pour que le monde vive”: the Zolian Belly amidst Evolution, Revolution, and Convolutions /
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Gobineau’s Heroes Are Ageless /
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Darwinus anarchistus explodens: Science and the Legend of the Struggle for Life (Louise Michel) /
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Back Matter --
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Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-38137-6
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
