Biological Discourses

CONTENTS: Robert Craig/Ina Linge: Introduction: Can Science and Literature Share a Language? - Staffan Müller-Wille: Legacies of Evolution - Elena Borelli: The Beast Within: Darwinism and Desire in the Italian Fin de Siècle - Anahita Rouyan: Resisting Excelsior Biology: H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895) and Late Victorian (Mis)Representations of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution - Pauline Moret-Jankus: Jules Soury and Paul Bourget, or the Influence of Haeckelian Biology on Fin-de-Siècle French Literature - Godela Weiss-Sussex: The Monist Novel as Site of Female Agency: Grete Meisel-Hess's Die Intellektuellen (1911) - William J. Dodd: Darwin's Imperialist Canvas: Dolf Sternberger's Panorama oder Ansichten vom 19. Jahrhundert (1938) as Cultural History in the Shadow of National Socialism - Heike Bauer: Constructions of Desire - Michael Eggers: Cryptogamic Kissing: Adalbert Stifter's Novella Der Kuss von Sentze (1866) and the Reproduction of Mosses - Charlotte Woodford: Biology, Desire, and a Longing for Heimat in Lou Andreas-Salomé's Novel Das Haus (1921) and Her Essay «Gedanken über das Liebesproblem» (1900) - Linda Leskau: Botanical Perversions: On the Depathologization of Perversions in Texts by Alfred Döblin and Hanns Heinz Ewers - Cyd Sturgess: (Re-)Constructing the Boundaries of Desire: Sexual Inversion and Sapphic Self-Fashioning in Josine Reuling's Terug naar het eiland (1937) - David Midgley: Projections of Otherness - Aisha Nazeer: Scientific and Gothic Constructions of the Degenerate, Racial «Other»: Reading the Abject in Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire (1897) and H. Rider Haggard's She (1887) - Michael Wainwright: Narratives of Helminthology: Thomas Spencer Cobbold, Bram Stoker, and The Lair of the White Worm (1911) - David Midgley: A Journey into the Interior: The Self as Other in Robert Müller's Novel Tropen (1915) - Sarah Cain: Attention and Efficiency: The Experimental Psychology of Modernism - David Wachter: Amoeba, Dragonfly, Gazelle: Animal Poetics Around 1908 - Robert Craig: The City as Creature: Reconfiguring the Creaturely Self in Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).