Search Results - "Evolution"

Marking Time : Romanticism and Evolution /

Table of Contents: “…Marking time : romanticism and evolution / Joel Faflak -- Part one: Romanticism's Darwin. 1. …”
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Primitive Minds : Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel / by Neill, Anna, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and the dreamy mind -- Charlotte Brontë's hypochondriacal heroines -- Spirits and seizures in Bleak House and Our mutual friend -- Suspended animation and second sight : Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner -- Dreamy intuition and detective genius : Ezra Jennings and Sherlock Holmes -- The end of the novel : naturalism and reverie in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The return of the native.…”
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Soul Liberty : The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia / by Turner, Nicole Myers

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Genius Envy : Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900 / by Paliyenko, Adrianna M., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Un/sexing genius -- Literary reception and its discontents -- The other history of French poetry, 1801-1900 -- Anaïs Segalas on race, gender, and "la mission civilisatrice" -- Work, genius, and the in-between in Malvina Blanchecotte -- The poetic edges of dualism in Louisa Siefert -- Louise Ackermann's turn to science -- Marie Krysinska on eve, evolution, and the property of genius.…”
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Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Ferguson -- The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle : Krao and the Victorian discourses of evolution, imperialism, and primitive sexuality / Nadja Durbach -- Empire and the Indian freak : the "Miniature Man" from Cawnpore and the "Marvellous Indian Boy" on tour in England / Marlene Tromp -- The Victorian mummy-fetish : H. …”
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Colonizing Russia’s Promised Land : Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe / by Friesen, Aileen, 1980-

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