Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture: Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939

Richter, V.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349323913

DOI: 10.1057/9780230300446

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 257