Autobiologies: Charles Darwin and the Natural History of the Self

ISBN-13: 9781611486025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 248 str.

Alexis Harley

Opis

The nineteenth century saw both an explosion of evolutionary ideas and an explosion in autobiographical writing. This book examines the collision between evolutionary thought and practices of self-representation, to show how nineteenth-century natural history refashioned the human subject.