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ISBN-13: 9781611486025
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Alexis Harley
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Local release date: 14/08/2016
Format: Paperback 248 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: History of Western philosophy [HPC]

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Google Preview: What does heredity mean for identity? What role does the individual have in shaping a personal or a human history? What is the ethical status of seemingly biologically determined behaviours? What does individual death mean in the light of species extinction? Autobiologies explores the importance of such questions in Victorian life writing. Analysing memoirs, diaries, letters, and natural histories Alexis Harley demonstrates how theories of natural selection shaped nineteenth-century autobiographical practices and refashioned the human subject-and also how the lived experience of the individual theorist simultaneously impacted their biological formulations.; Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Darwinian Selves Part I: Darwin Chapter 1: Darwin's Family Chapter 2: Naturalist Self-Fashioning: Darwin and the Beagle Diary Chapter 3: Animal Darwin and the Sympathy Instinct ... 93 Part II: Variations Chapter 4: Theories of Self-Transformation Chapter 5: "A natural history of myself": Herbert Spencer's Individuation Chapter 6: Harriet Martineau's Autothanatography and the Comtean Self Part III: Autobiologies Chapter 7: De Profundis, Degeneration and Wilde's Spencerian Individualism Chapter 8: Father and Son: Darwinism and the Struggle of Two Temperaments Chapter 9: In Memoriam and the Consolations of Development Conclusion: After the Victorians Bibliography Index About the Author; Google Preview content