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Evolution. Phylogeny --- Sociological theories --- Social Darwinism. --- Darwinisme social --- Social Darwinism --- Darwinism, Social --- Competition --- Social change --- Social conflict --- Social evolution
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Social change --- Social stratification --- Evolution. Phylogeny --- Science --- Sciences --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- History --- -Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Philosophy. --- -Philosophy --- History, Modern --- History - Philosophy --- Darwinisme social --- Selection naturelle --- Sociologie --- Sciences humaines --- Histoire --- 18e-19e siecles --- Epistemologie
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Darwinism [Social ] --- Darwinisme social --- Sociaal Darwinisme --- Social Darwinism --- Equality --- Egalité (Sociologie) --- 34 <09> --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen) --- 34 <09> Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen) --- Egalité (Sociologie) --- Égalité --- Communication
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"The 16 essays in this collection explore the distinctive qualities of America's textual engagement with Darwinism--the ways in which Darwinian language and theories have made their way into American Literary and cultural texts, providing writers a new vocabulary to describe human affairs and interactions with other living organisms. The editors argue that attention to the specifics of Darwin's place in the American scene is vital in light of the particularities of the reception and uses of evolutionary theory in the U.S.--i.e. the nation's melting pot identity, its slave past, its particular brands of social Darwinism, and its school of Pragmatist philosophy. In her review of the proposal, Laura Dassow Walls pointed out that one of the most exciting aspects of this project is that the editors and authors are reading a wide range of Darwin's own texts and thereby recovering the Darwin that Americans actually encountered, the more subtle and challenging Darwin who energized modernist American literature, not the Social Darwinist constructed by Herbert Spencer"-- "While much has been written about the impact of Darwin's theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin's theories as a cultural force affecting U.S. writers. America's Darwin fills this gap and features a range of critical approaches that examine U.S. textual responses to Darwin's works.The scholars in this collection represent a range of disciplines--literature, history of science, women's studies, geology, biology, entomology, and anthropology. All pay close attention to the specific forms that Darwinian evolution took in the United States, engaging not only with Darwin's most famous works, such as On the Origin of Species, but also with less familiar works, such as The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Each contributor considers distinctive social, cultural, and intellectual conditions that affected the reception and dissemination of evolutionary thought, from before the publication of On the Origin of Species to the early years of the twenty-first century. These essays engage with the specific details and language of a wide selection of Darwin's texts, treating his writings as primary sources essential to comprehending the impact of Darwinian language on American writers and thinkers. This careful engagement with the texts of evolution enables us to see the broad points of its acceptance and adoption in the American scene; this approach also highlights the ways in which writers, reformers, and others reconfigured Darwinian language to suit their individual purposes. America's Darwin demonstrates the many ways in which writers and others fit themselves to a narrative of evolution whose dominant motifs are contingency and uncertainty. Collectively, the authors make the compelling case that the interpretation of evolutionary theory in the U.S. has always shifted in relation to prevailing cultural anxieties"--
Darwinisme social dans la littérature --- Evolutie (Biologie) in de literatuur --- Evolution (Biologie) dans la littérature --- Evolution (Biology) in literature --- Sociaal Darwinisme in de literatuur --- Social Darwinism in literature --- American literature --- History and criticism --- Darwin, Charles Robert --- Influence --- Literature and science --- United States --- Social Darwinism --- James, William --- Criticism and interpretation --- Burroughs, John --- Melville, Herman --- Wharton, Edith Newbold --- Bellamy, Edward --- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins --- Norris, Frank --- Morgan, Lewis Henry --- London, Jack --- Boyle, T. Coraghessan --- SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- Social Darwinism in literature. --- Evolution (Biology) in literature. --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- History and criticism. --- Darwin, Charles, --- Influence.
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Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief the stereotype of the self-exterminating savage, or the view that "savagery" is a sufficient explanation for the ultimate disappearance of "savages" from the grand theater of world history.Humanitarians, according to Brantlinger, saw the problem in the same terms of inevitability (or doom) as did scientists such as Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley as well as propagandists for empire such as Charles Wentworth Dilke and James Anthony Froude. Brantlinger analyzes the Irish Famine in the context of ideas and theories about primitive races in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. He shows that by the end of the nineteenth century, especially through the influence of the eugenics movement, extinction discourse was ironically applied to "the great white race" in various apocalyptic formulations. With the rise of fascism and Nazism, and with the gradual renewal of aboriginal populations in some parts of the world, by the 1930s the stereotypic idea of "fatal impact" began to unravel, as did also various more general forms of race-based thinking and of social Darwinism.
Eurocentrism. --- Genocide. --- Indigenous peoples. --- Social Darwinism. --- Autochtonen --- Darwinism [Social ] --- Darwinisme social --- Eurocentrism --- Eurocentrisme --- Genocide --- Génocide --- Inboorlingen --- Indigenous peoples --- Indigènes --- Inheemse bevolking --- Inheemsen --- Inlanders --- Native peoples --- Peuples indigènes --- Population autochtone --- Populations indigènes --- Sociaal Darwinisme --- Social Darwinism --- Volkenmoord --- Eurocentricity --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Darwinism, Social --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Indigenous populations --- Native races --- Ethnocentrism --- Crime --- Competition --- Social change --- Social conflict --- Social evolution --- Ethnology --- Adivasis --- extinction of primitive people, robert knox, alfred wallace, savage races, nineteenth century racialism, nineteenth century extinction discourse. --- Autochtones
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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Darwin, Charles. --- English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism. --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism. --- English fiction. --- Evolution (Biology) in literature. --- Human beings in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- Social Darwinism in literature. --- Theory, etc. --- English fiction --- Evolution (Biology) in literature --- Literature --- Literature and science --- Social Darwinism in literature --- Human beings in literature --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Nature in literature --- English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Nature in poetry --- Environment --- Biology --- Self-organizing systems --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological fitness --- Genetics --- Man in literature --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- English literature --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc --- 820 "18/19" --- 82.04 --- 82.09 --- 82.09 Literaire kritiek --- Literaire kritiek --- 820 "18/19" Engelse literatuur--Hedendaagse Tijd --- Engelse literatuur--Hedendaagse Tijd --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- History and criticism&delete& --- Darwin, Charles --- Darwin, Charles, Robert --- Influence. --- Social Darwinism --- Roman anglais --- Littérature --- Evolution (Biologie) dans la littérature --- Littérature et sciences --- Darwinisme social --- Adaptation (Biologie) --- Nature dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Théorie, etc --- Darwin, Charles, --- Non-fiction --- anno 1800-1999 --- Adaptation (Biology). --- Social darwinism in literature. --- Environmental adaptation --- Adaptation, Environmental --- Literature History and criticism
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