Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Bildung, Biology and the Narrative Structure of Development
- 2 A Portrait of the Artist as a ‘Biologist in Words’: Language, Epiphany and Atavistic Bildung
- 3 Mendelian Inheritance, ‘Eternal Differences’ and Entropy in Howards End
- 4 ‘Tampering with the Expected Sequence’: Heterochrony and Sex Change in Orlando
- 5 Anachrony, Neoteny and the ‘Education of an Amphibian’ in Eyeless in Gaza
- 6 Beginning Again: Darwin’s Caterpillar from George Eliot to Beckett
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Series Editors’ Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 April 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Bildung, Biology and the Narrative Structure of Development
- 2 A Portrait of the Artist as a ‘Biologist in Words’: Language, Epiphany and Atavistic Bildung
- 3 Mendelian Inheritance, ‘Eternal Differences’ and Entropy in Howards End
- 4 ‘Tampering with the Expected Sequence’: Heterochrony and Sex Change in Orlando
- 5 Anachrony, Neoteny and the ‘Education of an Amphibian’ in Eyeless in Gaza
- 6 Beginning Again: Darwin’s Caterpillar from George Eliot to Beckett
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This series of monographs on selected topics in modernism is designed to reflect and extend the range of new work in modernist studies. The studies in the series aim for a breadth of scope and for an expanded sense of the canon of modernism, rather than focusing on individual authors. Literary texts will be considered in terms of contexts including recent cultural histories (modernism and magic; sonic modernity; media studies) and topics of theoretical interest (the everyday; postmodernism; the Frankfurt School); but the series will also re-consider more familiar routes into modernism (modernism and gender; sexuality; politics). The works published will be attentive to the various cultural, intellectual and historical contexts of British, American and European modernisms, and to inter-disciplinary possibilities within modernism, including performance and the visual and plastic arts.
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- Modernist Life HistoriesBiological Theory and The Experimental Bildungsroman, pp. xiiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2018