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Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity

Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity

Lehleiter, Christine

Paperback

Series: New Studies in the Age of Goethe

Literary CriticismBiology

ISBN10: 1611486238
ISBN13: 9781611486230
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: Mar 2 2017
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
At the turn of the eighteenth century, selfhood was understood as a tabularasa to be imprinted in the course of an individual's life. By the middle of the nineteenth-century, however, the individual had become defined as determined by heredity already from birth. Examining novels by Goethe, Jean Paul, and E.T.A. Hoffmann, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and anatomical collections, Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications of emerging notions of heredity for the conceptualization of selfhood. Focusing on three fields of inquiry--inbreeding and incest, cross-breeding and bastardization, evolution and autopoiesis--Christine Lehleiter proposes that the notion of selfhood for which Romanticism has become known was not threatened by considerations of determinism and evolution, but was in fact already a result of these very considerations. Romanticism, Origins and the History of Heredity will be of interest for literary scholars, historians of science, and all readers fascinated by the long durée of subjectivity and evolutionary thought.

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