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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Certainly one of the most idiosyncratic writers of the scientific romance, M.P. Shiel is primarily remembered today for a single novel, The Purple Cloud, and for his role in popularizing the racist theme of "the Yellow...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Widely regarded as Canada's pre-eminent narrative poet, E. J. Pratt embodied in his work a 19th-century concern for social Darwinism and an evolving ``instinct for what is imaginatively central in Canadian sensibility''...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedScience fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein is described as a Social Darwinist, often in derisive tones. His Social Darwinism, however, does not go to the extent of espousing an 'every man for himself' attitude in...
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From:New Statesman (Vol. 139, Issue 5014)Over the past three decades our ruling elites have been infected with a creeping geneticism. It matters little whether you are speaking of George Osborne or his immediate predecessor as chancellor, Alistair Darling--the...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 136, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMay a biologist in these polarized times dare suggest that Darwin is a bit wrong about anything? Even worse, does a biologist risk insult, ridicule, anger, and intimidation to suggest that Darwin is incorrect on a big...
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From:Utopian Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe author uses the works of 19th-century writers Edward Bellamy and Charles S. Peirce to critique the philosophy of greed implicit in social Darwinism. The article includes a discussion of Bellamy's "Looking Backward"...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 131, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSociological theory has been significantly influenced by biological theory ever since the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species in 1859. But although Karl Marx and Herbert Spencer both paid tribute to...
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From:The Manifesto in Literature (Vol. 2: The Modernist Movement: 1900-WWII. )Marcus Garvey Written by Marcus Garvey from an Atlanta penitentiary in 1925, “African Fundamentalism” is a semireligious statement of black racial pride and unity that calls for the establishment of a racial empire but...
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From:American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies (Vol. 2: Ralph Waldo Emerson to Carson McCullers. )Introduction JACK LONDON lived at a time when a dramatically new set of ideas, growing out of the theory of evolution, was changing the course of men’s thinking. These ideas stimulated, frustrated, and tantalized...