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

by Virginia Richter

Book Overview

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 Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349323918
• ISBN13: 9781349323913
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"