After Darwin : animals, emotions, and the mind / edited by Angelique Richardson.

Date:
2013
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Publication/Creation

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2013.

Physical description

xvi, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents

'Love and hatred are common to the whole sensitive creation' : animal feeling in the century before Darwin / Jane Spencer -- 'The book of the season' : the conception and reception of Darwin's Expression / Angelique Richardson -- The backbone shiver : Darwin and the arts / Gillian Beer -- Becoming an animal : Darwin and the evolution of sympathy / Paul White -- George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and Darwin : animals, emotions, and morals / Angelique Richardson -- Between medicine and evolutionary theory : sympathy and other emotional investments in life writings by and about Charles Darwin / David Amigoni -- From entangled vision to ethical engagement : Darwin, affect, and contemporary exhibition projects / Monika Pietrzak-Franger -- Reckoning with the emotions : neurological responses to the theory of evolution, 1870-1930 / L.S. Jacyna -- Darwin's changing Expression and the making of the modern state / Rhodri Hayward -- Calling the wild : selection, domestication, and species / Harriet Ritvo -- The development of emotional life / Michael Lewis.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    PQE.F.AA8-9
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ISBN

  • 9789042037472
  • 9042037474