The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926

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Nineteenth-century audiences, fluence of Freudian analysis on the study rather than experiencing the epistemo- of film, literature, and art.

Mermaid a cobbled-together assemblage. The experimentalism of of primate, avian, and reptile taxidermy , minstrel entertainers, actors, ac- the Aztec children little people pur- robats, and dancers often mir- portedly captured from the lost city of ror[ed] that of natural scientists Iximaya , the Earthmen African chil- in its exploration of the limits dren from a tribe believed to live in and modalities of the human underground burrows , Krao a Laotian body, but it tend[ed] to be a girl with hypertrichosis , and Jo-Jo the burlesque mirroring. Unlike Saartjie With this mirroring relationship in Baartman, a.

Along with such complica- kinds in the pseudo-scientific authority tions, the notion of performance itself of the freak show.

As Goodall details, presented a crisis of sorts for the imperi- the realm of fantasy and speculation alist project. As Goodall points out, had already established a place for these fantastic creatures long before natural If ethnological shows were sup- history could account for them, and posed to inform their audi- was able to theorize speciation with ences about the stages of hu- greater freedom than scientists such as man evolutionary development, Geoffrey St.

But himself deftly illustrates.

In chapter 4, entitled tween observer and observed. What herself [came] under scrutiny as a did human difference consist destabilising influence in the uneasy of? Impersonation was instant balance of power between higher and adaptation and, as such, made lower modes of human being. Beer followed her pre- power. While the social sciences wasted Evolution and Literary Theory had turned no time in adopting evolutionary ap- the discussion to theoretical concerns as proaches and have come under a recent well as critical methods.

Between theatre itself might be imagined as the and , George Levine pub- missing link in the co-evolution of adapt- lished no less than three volumes of ationist literary criticism and Darwin- adaptationist criticism, including Dar- ian approaches to performance studies. Related Papers. Dangerous Darwinism. By Chris Fleming and Jane Goodall.

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