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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: Encounter[In the following excerpt, Feuer advances his notion that Peirce was the first philosopher to be considered a “pragmatic pessimist.”] According to John Dewey, the pragmatic philosophy arising in America as the...
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From: The Wellsian[(essay date winter 1994) In the following essay, Sommerville traces the complex chronological structure of The Time Machine, asserting that the accepted chronology of the novella "is erroneous and that the true...
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From: The Mother in/and French Literature[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Hadlock explores Maupassant's use of the motherhood motif in Une Vie as a means of exploring nontraditional conceptions of authority.] In his short story, "Menuet," Maupassant...
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From: Victorian Newsletter[(essay date fall 1994) In the following essay, Persak evaluates the influence on Stevenson's 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the theories of British philosopher Herbert Spencer concerning the...
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From: Irish Writing on Lafcadio Hearn and Japan: Writer, Journalist & Teacher[(essay date April-June 1956) In the following essay, originally published in The Dublin Magazine in 1956, Tuttle summarizes Hearn's achievement as a writer, journalist, and cultural translator, stating that while his...
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From: American Literary Realism[(essay date fall 2008) In the following essay, Berliner claims that London's adventure and nature short stories function to express his socialist ideology and provide insight into the concept of socialistic Social...
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From: The Modern Age: Turn-of-the-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolescence[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Baxter contends that as one of the first popular writers for adolescents in America, Alger sought to establish a "workable path" towards success that his readers could...
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From: Nichibunken Japan Review[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Starrs studies Hearn's endorsement of "culturally imperialist political" views of Japan during his years in the country, probing the reasons why he could become such a...
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From: Utopian Studies: Journal for the Society for Utopian Studies[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Hartman traces the evolutionary views of Charles S. Peirce and Edward Bellamy through their various publications and declares that both shared the idea that love is the great...
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From: On Mosca and Pareto[In the following essay, which was originally published in Italian in 1964, Bobbio examines the formal structure of Trattato di sociologia generale.] As is known, the Trattato di sociologia generale was born after a...
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From: The Sane Positivist: A Biography of Edward L. Thorndike[(essay date 1968) In the following excerpt from her book The Sane Positivist: A Biography of Edward L. Thorndike, Joncich explicates the major points in Thorndike's thesis "Animal Intelligence" and discusses its...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date winter 1994) In the following essay, Taggart asserts that in The Blind Maeterlinck indirectly explores the evolutionary theories of Herbert Spencer.] I intend to look at Maurice Maeterlinck's play The...
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From: Art History[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, McKay discusses Kandinsky's ethnographic essay "From Materials on the Ethnography of the Sysol and Vechegda Zyrians: the National Deities" and relates it to his autobiographical...
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From: Evolution & Ethics: T. H. Huxley's Evolution and Ethics, With New Essays on Its Victorian and Sociobiological ContextIn this essay, Paradis discusses the social and political implications of Huxley's “Prolegomena” and “Evolution and Ethics.” In the summer of 1892, three years before his death, an ailing T. H. Huxley wrote the...
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From: American Indian Autobiography[Brumble is an American educator, editor, and translator who has written numerous works about Native American autobiographies. In the following excerpt, he discusses late-nineteenth century Social Darwinism, evolutionary...
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From: Hardy: The Temporal Poetics[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Lanzano discusses how Hardy expressed his elegiac view of the temporal world through the voice of a "distant" poetic persona, and explores Hardy's notion of temporal relativity,...
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From: English Fiction in Transition, 1880-1920[(essay date 1962) In the following essay, Kennedy suggests that many of Bennett's protagonists are intentionally prosaic but display, like Bennett himself, qualities of the künstler-bürger (artist-hero).] Arnold...
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From: SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900[(essay date autumn 2004) In the following essay, Gargano investigates the symbolic importance of the schoolroom in Brontë's Shirley. According to Gargano, the contrast between private and public modes of education...
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From: English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Lincoln asserts that Clayhanger, while realistic, is not artless; it is, in his judgment, thematically cohesive and its protagonists' struggle is sociologically significant....