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Author:

Harley, Alexis, author.

Title:

Autobiologies : Charles Darwin and the natural history of the self / Alexis Harley.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press ;

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xvii, 213 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Autobiography--History--19th century.
Human evolution in literature--19th century.
Evolution (Biology)--Authorship.
Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Darwinian selves -- Darwin's family -- Naturalist self-fashioning and seeing in Darwin's Beagle diary --Animal Darwin and the sympathy instinct -- Theories of self-transformation --"A natural history of myself" -- Harriet Martineau's Autothanatography and the Comtean self -- De profundis, degeneration and Wilde's Spencerian individualism -- Father and son : Darwinism and the struggle of two temperaments -- In memoriam, and the consolations of development -- Conclusion : After the Victorians.

Summary:

Through analysis of memoirs, diaries, letters, and natural histories by Victorian authors, this author explores how "evolutionary theories shaped nineteenth-century autobiographical practices and refashioned the human subject" and "how the lived experience of the individual theorist simultaneously impacted their biological formulations."

ISBN:

1611486009
9781611486001

OCLC:

(OCoLC)887858561

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)