The Resource Autobiologies : Charles Darwin and the natural history of the self, Alexis Harley
Autobiologies : Charles Darwin and the natural history of the self, Alexis Harley
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The item Autobiologies : Charles Darwin and the natural history of the self, Alexis Harley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
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- Summary
- Through analysis of memoirs, diaries, letters, and natural histories by Victorian authors, this author explores how "evolutionary theories shaped nineteenth-century autobiographical practices and refashioned the human subject" and "how the lived experience of the individual theorist simultaneously impacted their biological formulations."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvii, 213 pages
- Contents
-
- Introduction : Darwinian selves
- Darwin's family
- Naturalist self-fashioning and seeing in Darwin's Beagle diary --Animal Darwin and the sympathy instinct
- Theories of self-transformation --"A natural history of myself"
- Harriet Martineau's Autothanatography and the Comtean self
- De profundis, degeneration and Wilde's Spencerian individualism
- Father and son : Darwinism and the struggle of two temperaments
- In memoriam, and the consolations of development
- Conclusion : After the Victorians
- Isbn
- 9781611486001
- Label
- Autobiologies : Charles Darwin and the natural history of the self
- Title
- Autobiologies
- Title remainder
- Charles Darwin and the natural history of the self
- Statement of responsibility
- Alexis Harley
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Through analysis of memoirs, diaries, letters, and natural histories by Victorian authors, this author explores how "evolutionary theories shaped nineteenth-century autobiographical practices and refashioned the human subject" and "how the lived experience of the individual theorist simultaneously impacted their biological formulations."
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Harley, Alexis
- Dewey number
- 809.9/3592/0009034
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- CT81
- LC item number
- .H37 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Autobiography
- Human evolution in literature
- Evolution (Biology)
- Literature and science
- Label
- Autobiologies : Charles Darwin and the natural history of the self, Alexis Harley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction : Darwinian selves -- Darwin's family -- Naturalist self-fashioning and seeing in Darwin's Beagle diary --Animal Darwin and the sympathy instinct -- Theories of self-transformation --"A natural history of myself" -- Harriet Martineau's Autothanatography and the Comtean self -- De profundis, degeneration and Wilde's Spencerian individualism -- Father and son : Darwinism and the struggle of two temperaments -- In memoriam, and the consolations of development -- Conclusion : After the Victorians
- Control code
- 887858561
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9781611486001
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)887858561
- Label
- Autobiologies : Charles Darwin and the natural history of the self, Alexis Harley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction : Darwinian selves -- Darwin's family -- Naturalist self-fashioning and seeing in Darwin's Beagle diary --Animal Darwin and the sympathy instinct -- Theories of self-transformation --"A natural history of myself" -- Harriet Martineau's Autothanatography and the Comtean self -- De profundis, degeneration and Wilde's Spencerian individualism -- Father and son : Darwinism and the struggle of two temperaments -- In memoriam, and the consolations of development -- Conclusion : After the Victorians
- Control code
- 887858561
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9781611486001
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)887858561
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