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Book SynopsisMarking Time, edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing its origins to the literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the long nineteenth century.
Trade Review"…the essays in this volume offer interesting contributions to our understanding of the Romantic conception of natural history and its relation to Darwinian evolution – pointing toward the possibility of expanding the contours of the ‘Romantic Darwin’ narrative." -- Andrea Gambarotto, Universite Catholique de Louvain *
HPLS *
"Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution, thoughtfully edited by Joel Faflak, presents a multiplicity of thinkers delving deeply into the possibility and potential for entanglement among temporality, Romanticism, and evolution." -- Dewey W. Hall, California State Polytechnic University *
European Romantic Review *
"There is much to learn from Marking Time, both in terms of how evolution served as a pervasive concept and metaphor across multiple discourses and disciplines in the Romantic era, and in the specific writings and authors analyzed in individual chapters, in which familiar texts are made unfamiliar and unfamiliar texts are brought to the forefront. Marking Time will surely have a major effect on future studies of Romantic science and the history of evolution." -- Seth T. Reno Auburn, University at Montgomery *
Clio *
"Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution offers excellent contributions to these diverse fields of study, and Faflak’s timely collection leaves readers with a portrait of Romantic evolution’s own entangled bank of topics and concepts far knottier—and more interesting—than the one familiar from more traditional histories of Darwinian evolutionary science." -- Andrew Bukett *
Isis *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution Joel Faflak Part 1 Romanticism's Darwin 1. Plants, Analogy, and Perfection: Loose and Strict Analogies Gillian Beer 2. Darwin and the Mobility of Species Alan Bewell 3. Darwin's Ideas Matthew Rowlinson Part 2 Romantic Temporalities 4. Deep Time in the South Pacific: Scientific Voyaging and the Ancient/Primitive Analogy Noah Heringman 5. Malthus Our Contemporary?: Toward a Political Economy of Sex Maureen N. McLane Part 3 Goethe and the Contingencies of Life 6. Goethe's Morphology G bor ron Zempl n 7. Vertiginous Life: Goethe, Bones, and Italy Andrew Piper 8. Taking Chances Theresa M. Kelley Part 4 Evolutionary Idealisms 9. Did Goethe and Schelling Endorse Species Evolution? Robert J. Richards 10. The Vitality of Idealism: Life and Evolution in Schelling's and Hegel's Systems Tilottama Rajan 11. Degeneration: Inversions of Teleology Joan Steigerwald Contributors Index
