Description
What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Epigraphs What Animal? Darwin's Displacement of Man Creating Connections: Humans, Apes, and Missing Links Apes and Ape-Men: the Anxiety of Simianation Missing Links and Lost Worlds: the Anxiety of Assimilation Cultural Pessimism and Anthropological Anxiety Notes Bibliography Index
