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Reflects contemporary paradigm shifts in embryology and evolutionary theory through formal experimentation in the modernist Bildungsroman
Modernist Life Histories explores how new models of embryonic development helped inspire new kinds of coming-of-age plots during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on novels by E. M. Forster, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and Samuel Beckett, the book links narrative experiments with shuffled chronology, repeated beginnings and sex change to new discoveries in the biological sciences. It also reveals new connections between the so-called Two Cultures by highlighting how scientific ideas and narratives enter the literary realm.
Key Features
Provides a unique perspective on the Bildungsroman (novel of formation), one of the most discussed genres in recent scholarly work on modernismApproaches the study of science and literature with exceptionally close attention to the details of scientific models, their cultural appropriations, and their political implicationsMakes the first thoroughgoing argument for twentieth-century biology as a positive influence on modernist poetics and ethicsModels how narrative theory can serve the goals of interdisciplinary research
Contents
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Bildung, Biology and the Narrative Structure of Development
Chapter 2. A Portrait of the Artist as a 'Biologist in Words': Language, Epiphany and Atavistic Bildung
Chapter 3. Mendelian Inheritance, 'Eternal Differences' and Entropy in Howards End
Chapter 4. 'Tampering with the Expected Sequence': Heterochrony and Sex Change in Orlando
Chapter 5. Anachrony, Neoteny and the 'Education of an Amphibian' in Eyeless in Gaza
Chapter 6. Beginning again: Darwin's Caterpillar from George Eliot to Beckett
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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