Literature after Darwin : human beasts in western fiction, 1859-1939 / by Virginia Richter.

  • Richter, Virginia.
Date:
2011
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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x, 257 pages ; 23 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index.

Contents

What animal? : Darwin's displacement of man -- Creating connections : humans, apes, and missing links -- Apes and ape-men : the anxiety of simianation -- Missing links and lost worlds : the anxiety of assimilation -- Cultural pessimism and anthropological anxiety.

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    History of Medicine
    AOS.AI.AA8-9
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  • 9780230273405
  • 0230273408