Biological Time, Historical Time
Transfers and Transformations in 19th Century Literature
Published on 22. November 2018
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-90-04-38137-7 (ISBN)
Description
Biological Time, Historical Time presents a new approach to 19th century thought and literature: by focussing on the subject of time, it offers a new perspective on the exchanges between French and German literary texts on the one hand and scientific disciplines on the other. Hence, the rivalling influences of the historical sciences and of the life sciences on literary texts are explored, texts from various scientific domains - medicine, natural history, biology, history, and multiple forms of vulgarisation - are investigated. Literary texts are analysed in their participation in and transformation of the scientific imagination. Special attention is accorded to the temporal dimension: this allows for an innovative account of key concepts of 19th century culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
676 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-38137-7 (9789004381377)
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Niklas Bender is substitute Professor for Romance Literatures at Trier and Tuebingen University. His works focus on literature and science, comic procedures, laughter and anthropology. Recently, he published The Laughter of Art: the Contribution of the Comic to Modernist Literature.
Gisele Seginger, full professor at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee and member of the Institut Universitaire de France, is the founder of the Centre de Recherche Litteratures, Savoirs et Arts (LISAA) and director of a research program at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. She is a specialist on Flaubert, Nerval, Musset and on the relations between literature and scientific knowledge.
Gisele Seginger, full professor at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee and member of the Institut Universitaire de France, is the founder of the Centre de Recherche Litteratures, Savoirs et Arts (LISAA) and director of a research program at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. She is a specialist on Flaubert, Nerval, Musset and on the relations between literature and scientific knowledge.
Content
The Authors
Introduction
?Niklas Bender and Gisele Seginger
Part 1: Rethinking the Order of Time
From Biblical Time to Darwinian Time: Discourses on the Living World in the 18th and 19th Centuries
?Pascal Duris
Memory Strata, Geology and Change of Historical Paradigm in France around 1830
?Paule Petitier
Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, "maitre Georges" and the Advance of Nature
?Claude Blanckaert
From Biological Time to Historical Time: the Category of "Development" (Entwicklung) in the Historical Thought of Herder, Kant, Hegel, and Marx
?Christophe Bouton
"O man! wilt thou never conceive that thou art but an ephemeron?": the Reception of Geological Deep Time in the Late 18th Century
?David Schulz
Part 2: Atavism and Heredity
The Law of Progress, Atavism, and Prehistory in the Belle Epoque
?Arnaud Hurel
Nietzsche, or Culture Put to the Test at the Timescale of Heredity
?Emmanuel Salanskis
Zola, Hereditability of Character and Hereditability of Deviation: After a Remark by Bergson in L'Evolution Creatrice
?Arnaud Francois
Life, Sex and Temporality in Zola's La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret
?Rudolf Behrens
Part 3: Nature and Culture
Time of History and Time of Nature in the Historical Novels of Victor Hugo
?Niklas Bender
Historical Time, Cultural Time, and Biological Time in Baudelaire
?Thomas Klinkert
Evolution and Time in the Chants de Maldoror
?Frank Jaeger
Memory of the Body in Proust: Historical Time and Biological Time
?Edward Bizub
Part 4: Poetics of Time
The Poetics of Restored Time: Balzac, His Age and the Figure of Cuvier
?Hugues Marchal
The Evolution of Social Species in Balzac's Comedie humaine
?Sandra Collet
Time as Imagined in the Evolutionary Epic
?Nicolas Wanlin
Evolutionism and Successivity in Antediluviana, Poeme geologique by Ernest Cotty (1876)
?Yohann Ringuede
End of the World, End of Time: the Theory of Evolution and Its Fate in the Novel of Anticipation
?Claire Barel-Moisan
A Biologist Literary History: August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Franco-German Natural Sciences
?Stefan Knoedler
Part 5: Biology and Ideology
Evolutionary Time and Revolutionary Time (Michelet, Flaubert, Zola)
?Juliette Azoulai
Michelet and La Mer: Biology and the Philosophy of History
?Gisele Seginger
"Il faut manger et etre mange pour que le monde vive": the Zolian Belly amidst Evolution, Revolution, and Convolutions
?Carine Goutaland
Gobineau's Heroes Are Ageless
?Pierre-Louis Rey
Darwinus anarchistus explodens: Science and the Legend of the Struggle for Life (Louise Michel)
?Claude Retat
Index
Introduction
?Niklas Bender and Gisele Seginger
Part 1: Rethinking the Order of Time
From Biblical Time to Darwinian Time: Discourses on the Living World in the 18th and 19th Centuries
?Pascal Duris
Memory Strata, Geology and Change of Historical Paradigm in France around 1830
?Paule Petitier
Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, "maitre Georges" and the Advance of Nature
?Claude Blanckaert
From Biological Time to Historical Time: the Category of "Development" (Entwicklung) in the Historical Thought of Herder, Kant, Hegel, and Marx
?Christophe Bouton
"O man! wilt thou never conceive that thou art but an ephemeron?": the Reception of Geological Deep Time in the Late 18th Century
?David Schulz
Part 2: Atavism and Heredity
The Law of Progress, Atavism, and Prehistory in the Belle Epoque
?Arnaud Hurel
Nietzsche, or Culture Put to the Test at the Timescale of Heredity
?Emmanuel Salanskis
Zola, Hereditability of Character and Hereditability of Deviation: After a Remark by Bergson in L'Evolution Creatrice
?Arnaud Francois
Life, Sex and Temporality in Zola's La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret
?Rudolf Behrens
Part 3: Nature and Culture
Time of History and Time of Nature in the Historical Novels of Victor Hugo
?Niklas Bender
Historical Time, Cultural Time, and Biological Time in Baudelaire
?Thomas Klinkert
Evolution and Time in the Chants de Maldoror
?Frank Jaeger
Memory of the Body in Proust: Historical Time and Biological Time
?Edward Bizub
Part 4: Poetics of Time
The Poetics of Restored Time: Balzac, His Age and the Figure of Cuvier
?Hugues Marchal
The Evolution of Social Species in Balzac's Comedie humaine
?Sandra Collet
Time as Imagined in the Evolutionary Epic
?Nicolas Wanlin
Evolutionism and Successivity in Antediluviana, Poeme geologique by Ernest Cotty (1876)
?Yohann Ringuede
End of the World, End of Time: the Theory of Evolution and Its Fate in the Novel of Anticipation
?Claire Barel-Moisan
A Biologist Literary History: August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Franco-German Natural Sciences
?Stefan Knoedler
Part 5: Biology and Ideology
Evolutionary Time and Revolutionary Time (Michelet, Flaubert, Zola)
?Juliette Azoulai
Michelet and La Mer: Biology and the Philosophy of History
?Gisele Seginger
"Il faut manger et etre mange pour que le monde vive": the Zolian Belly amidst Evolution, Revolution, and Convolutions
?Carine Goutaland
Gobineau's Heroes Are Ageless
?Pierre-Louis Rey
Darwinus anarchistus explodens: Science and the Legend of the Struggle for Life (Louise Michel)
?Claude Retat
Index