Biological Discourses: The Language of Science and Literature Around 1900: 27 (Cultural History & Literary Imagination) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906165785 ISBN 13: 9781906165789

Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

In the wake of the Darwin Anniversary celebrations in 2009, this volume reaches beyond the Darwinian legacy and explores the range and diversity of interactions between biological thought and literary writing in the period around 1900, drawing on examples from across European literatures.

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About the Author

Robert Craig is Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Bamberg in Germany. He holds a PhD in German from the University of Cambridge. His doctoral thesis examined the dialectic of nature and self in the work of the modernist author Alfred Döblin (2016). He has also published articles on Günter Grass and on the philosophy of social networking technologies. His work has been funded by the AHRC and the DAAD.

Ina Linge is Associate Research Fellow in the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter. She holds a PhD in German from the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral thesis focused on the performance of queer livability in German sexological and psychoanalytic life writings, c.1900-1933 (2016). She has published articles on fin-de-siècle and modernist literature and culture, and the interdependence of sexology and autobiography. Her work has been funded by the AHRC, the MHRA, and the Wellcome Trust.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906165785
• ISBN 13: 9781906165789
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450
• Editor: Craig Robert, Linge Ina