Darwin in Atlantic Cultures

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List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: The Descent of Darwin in Atlantic Cultures, Jeannette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp PART I: GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES 1. Strange Birds: Friedrich Nietzsche, Djuna Barnes, and Queer Evolution, Robert Azzarello 2. 'Sexual Selection' and the Social Revolution: Anarchist Eugenics and Radical Darwinism in the United States, 1850-1910, Jesse F. Battan 3. The Birds and the Bees: Darwin's Evolutionary Approach to Sexuality, Kimberly A. Hamlin 4. Love in the Age of Darwinian Reproduction, Mark B. Feldman 5. Victorian Birdsongs: Sexual Selection, Gender, and Darwin's Theory of Music, Laura M. Bolt PART II: RACE AND DIFFERENCE 6. Rise and Fall: Degeneration, Historical Determinism, and William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!, Christy A. Cannariato 7. What Is It? Difference, Darwin, and the Victorian Freak Show, Lindsey Churchill 8. The Mocking Meme: Popular Darwinism, Illustrative Graphics, and Editorial Cartooning, G. Bruce Retallack 9. Selective Affinities: Darwin's Theory of Evolution in Adventure Novels by Jack London and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Herbert Klein PART III: COLONIZATION, NATION, AND PROGRESS 10. Simians, Negroes, and 'Missing Link': Evolutionary Discourses and Transatlantic Debates on 'The Negro Question,' Jeannette Eileen Jones 11. Evolution in the Backlands: Brazilian Intellectuals and the Development of a Nation, Gildo Magalhaes Santos 12. The Evolution of the West: Darwinist Visions of Race and Progress in Roosevelt and Turner, Patrick B. Sharp 13. Darwinism in Spanish America: Union and Diversity in Jose Rodo and Jose Vasconcelos, Adriana Novoa 14. The Miseducation of Henry Adams: Fantasies of Race, Citizenship, and Darwinian Dynamos, John P. Bruni Notes on Contributors Index