{"product_id":"marking-time-9781442644304","title":"Marking Time","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"…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 * \u003cem\u003eHPLS\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 * \u003cem\u003eEuropean Romantic Review\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 * \u003cem\u003eClio\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 * \u003cem\u003eIsis\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195279831383,"sku":"9781442644304","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442644304.jpg?v=1763647021","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/marking-time-9781442644304","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}