Literature After Darwin
Author | : V. Richter |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2010-12-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230300446 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230300448 |
Rating | : 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Download or read book Literature After Darwin written by V. Richter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.