Learned neighbors and hypnotic seances: on Anton Chekhov's Darwinist parodies / Melissa L. Miller. An upheaval in thinking minds: Darwin's Russian reception as a contextual source in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment / James Goodwin -- Nikolai Strakhov on Darwinism: humans, progress, and organicism / Brendan G. Mooney -- Anti-Darwinism as anti-nihilism: the conservative response to Darwinism in Mikhail Katkov's Russian Messenger and The Moscow News and Boleslav Markevich's pedagogical romance Marina from Alyrog (1873) / Victoria Thorstensson -- Nationality, philosophy, and science in Nikolai Danilevsky's critique of Darwinism / Stephen M. Woodburn -- Darwinism "dressed in Russian state uniform": Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's "The Predators" and other works / Charles Byrd -- An attack from the left: Nikolai Chernyshevsky's critique of Darwin / Andrew M. Drozd -- Learned neighbors and hypnotic seances: on Anton Chekhov's Darwinist parodies / Melissa L. Miller.
Summary:
"This book examines the reception of Darwin's books and ideas in Russia as a cultural phenomenon, involving language, literature, science, philosophy, and humor. Diverse writers reveal the impact of the Darwinian moment on Russian minds and the public exchange of ideas, reflecting the optimism and anxiety of the late imperial era"-- Provided by publisher.
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