Literature After Darwin: Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939 [Hardcover]

What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Epigraphs 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 Notes Bibliography IndexVIRGINIA RICHTER?holds a Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Berne, Switzerland. Previously, she taught English and Comparative Literature at the Universities of Munich and G?ttingen. She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of Leeds. She has published and lectured widely on Darwinism and on Victorian and Modernist literature and culture.