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From: Journal of Canadian Studies[(essay date spring 1987) In the following essay, Dunlap considers the role of science in Roberts's animal stories, arguing that their "ideology . . . owed as much to nineteenth-century biology, particularly to Darwinian...
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From: The Humanist[(essay date July-August 1981) In the following essay, Harnack discusses the success of the television program Cosmos and Sagan's appearance before the American Humanist Association to receive its Humanist of the Year...
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From: Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Kroeber stresses the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to an ecologically oriented literary criticism, noting especially the need for an understanding of scientific...
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From: MLN[(essay date April 2003) In the following essay, Milburn analyzes the commonalities between the approaches taken by Darwinism and deconstruction, positing that both Charles Darwin and Derrida challenge humanist...
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From: CLIOGiven his intention in Wonderful Life to explain “the nature of history itself,” we might expect Stephen Jay Gould to describe the rise and fall of nations and states, the triumphs and tragedies of great leaders, or even...
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From: Commonweal[(review date 23 April 1999) In the following review, Johnson focuses on the papal statement that Gould uses in his analysis of religion and science in Rocks of Ages.] In October 1996 Pope John Paul II sent a statement...
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From: Papers on Language and Literature[(essay date fall 1991) In the following essay, Smith assesses the scientific underpinnings of Eliot's novel, focusing in particular on Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species (1859) and Charles Lyell's theory of...
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From: Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture[In the following essay, originally published in The Monist, Young places Darwin's theory of natural selection in the contexts of intellectual history analyzing its scientific value, the objections it has elicited, and...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)This book may have taken the longest to write and may be the most influential work since the Bible. Further, since Charles Darwin himself is such an exemplary product of the programs for the gradual accumulation of...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)In his early twenties Thomas Hardy aspired to be a country curate and poet, like William Barnes. Yet, after a period of intense reading in London, he rejected belief in Providence for scientific philosophy, based largely...
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From: MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly[(essay date 1945) In the following essay, Carter traces the influence of Charles Darwin on the work of Daudet. He claims that Daudet was suspicious of Darwinism because he thought it encouraged animalistic behavior.]...
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From: The Sex Is Out of This World: Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Shillock discusses the role that scientific theories of evolution and degeneration play in Wells’s conception of The Time Machine.] Three possibilities of life await … [for]...
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From: Monatshefte[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Sprengel provides a general overview of the influence of Darwinism on German and Austrian literature written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Various...
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From: an Excerpt from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural SelectionWhen on board H.M.S. `Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past...
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From: Goethe's Other Faust: The Drama, Part II[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Gearey considers the ways in which Goethe's scientific interests and ideas shaped the structure of Faust II.] In a footnote to the Introduction of his Origin of Species,...
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From: Children's Literature Association Quarterly[Hawley is an American educator and critic specializing in Victorian and Modern British literature. In the following essay, he examines The Water Babies as a vehicle for instruction designed by Kingsley to address...
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From: Quarterly Journal of Speech[(essay date May 1985) In the following essay, Lessl examines elements of religious discourse and rhetoric in Sagan's television program Cosmos. According to Lessl, Sagan's Cosmos provides "a mythic understanding of...
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From:Verbatim (Vol. 28, Issue 1)After one of my performances at a storytelling festival, a couple came up to say they enjoyed my stories. It is important to note that I tell many of them in the vernacular of my native Ozarks. The woman simply...
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From: Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Foster traces the evolution of Marx’s historical materialism through the ideas of Charles Darwin, Hegel, and the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus.] In 1837 a young Charles...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date spring 2005) In the following essay, Aarseth notes the influence of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species on The Wild Duck, asserting that Ibsen adapted Darwin's theories to highlight his own ideas...