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04009aam a22004094i 4500 001 65A29E80066511E4B09646AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140708010108 008 130620s2014 vtua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013020843 020 $a 1472414071 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781472414076 (hardcover : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)849801156 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d CDX $d UKMGB $d PUL $d COO $d YAM $d YUS $d ERASA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PN55 $b .R45 2014 082 00 $a 809/.9336 $2 23 245 00 $a Reflecting on Darwin / $c edited by Eckart Voigts, Barbara Schaff and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. 264 1 $a Burlington, VT : $b Ashgate, $c [2014] 300 $a xii, 231 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $g 11. $t tautology or testable theory? / $r Momme von Sydow. $r Eckart Voigts -- $g Part 1. The $t Cultural Evolution of Darwin's Thought. $g 1. $t 'I differ widely from you' : $t Darwin, Galton and the culture of eugenics / $r Angelique Richardson ; $g 2. $t Evolution, heredity and visuality : $t reading faces with Thomas Hardy / $r Susanne Scholz ; $g 3. $t 'How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!' : $t Darwin's 'ape theory' and its traces in Victorian children's magazines / $r Jochen Petzold ; $g 4. $t Gender trouble as monkey business : $t changing roles of simian characters in literature and film between 1870 and 1930 / $r Julika Griem -- $g Part 2. $t Darwin's Cultural Resonance Today. $g 5. $t Neo-Victorian Darwin : $t representations of the nineteenth-century scientist, naturalist and explorer in twenty-first-century women's writing / $r Ann Heilmann ; $g 6. $t (Mis-)representations of Darwin's Origin and evolutionary master narratives in The sea (2005) and The secret scripture (2008) / $r Felix C.H. Sprang ; $g 7. $t Evolution for better or for worse? : $t science fiction literature and film and the public debate on the future of humanity / $r Angela Schwarz -- $g Part 3. $t Darwin as 'Pop Star' of Contemporary Theory. $g 8. $t Displacing humans, reconfiguring Darwin in contemporary culture and theory / $r Virginia Richter ; $g 9. $t Ordering Darwin : $t evolution and normativity / $r Nils Wilkinson ; $g 10. The $t limits of sociobiology : $t is there a sociobiological explanation of culture? / $r Mathias Gutmann ; $g 11. $t 'Survival of the fittest' in Darwinian metaphysics : $t tautology or testable theory? / $r Momme von Sydow. 520 8 $a Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they have inspired, 'Reflecting on Darwin' poses the following questions: "How are the apparatuses in the mid-nineteenth century and at the turn of the twenty-first century interconnected with bio-scientific paradigms in art, literature, culture and science? How are naturalism, determinism and Darwinism - the eugenics of the nineteenth century and the genetic coding of the twentieth century - positioned, embodied and staged in various media configurations and media genres? and "How have particular media apparatuses formed, displaced or stabilized the various concepts of humankind in the framework of evolutionary theory? Ranging from the early circulation of Darwin's ideas to the present, this interdisciplinary collection pays particular attention to Darwin's postmillennial reception. 600 10 $a Darwin, Charles, $d 1809-1882 $x Influence. 650 0 $a Literature and science. 650 0 $a Evolution (Biology) in literature. 650 0 $a Evolution (Biology) in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Science in popular culture. 650 0 $a Science fiction $x History and criticism. 700 1 $a Voigts-Virchow, Eckart, $e editor of compilation. 700 1 $a Schaff, Barbara, $e editor of compilation. 700 1 $a Pietrzak-Franger, Monika, $e editor of compilation. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180203022927.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826093101.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=65A29E80066511E4B09646AEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search