Genome time: Post-Darwinism then and now
2013; Wiley; Volume: 55; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/criq.12031
ISSN1467-8705
Autores Tópico(s)Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
ResumoCritical QuarterlyVolume 55, Issue 1 p. 57-74 THE STATE, OR STATELESSNESS, OF VICTORIAN STUDIES Genome time: Post-Darwinism then and now Jay Clayton, Jay ClaytonSearch for more papers by this author Jay Clayton, Jay ClaytonSearch for more papers by this author First published: 11 April 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12031Citations: 5Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Notes I would like to thank my research assistant, Donald T. Rodrigues, for his help with this article and Regenia Gagnier for her advice and support. 1 David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (New York: Random House, 2004), 392. All further references to this work will be cited in the text as CA. Web of Science®Google Scholar 2The term 'genome time' comes from my chapter of that name in Jay Clayton, Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). Several sentences in the next paragraph are adapted from that earlier work. Google Scholar 3See ibid., 166–189. Google Scholar 4 Barry Barnes and John Dupré, Genomes and What to Make of Them (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 49. 10.7208/chicago/9780226172965.001.0001 Web of Science®Google Scholar 5 Stephen Jay Gould, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1987), 3. Google Scholar 6Ibid., 196. Google Scholar 7After reading August Weismann, Wells turned away from Lamarckism, but his growing interest in eugenics gave him a reason to believe that society could take control of evolution and direct it toward a desired end. Google Scholar 8I owe this insight to Jessica Staley's comment following my paper ' Evolutionary Circles: Rivalry and the Eclipse of Darwinism' at the North American Victorian Studies Association (Madison, 28 September 2012). Google Scholar 9 Peter J. Bowler, The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades around 1900 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983). Google Scholar 10See Samuel Butler, Life and Habit (London: Trübner, 1878) and Google Scholar Unconscious Memory (London: D. Bogue, 1880). Google Scholar 11 Bowler, The Eclipse of Darwinism, 49. Google Scholar 12 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (1871; Santa Barbara CA: Woodbridge Press, 1979), 52. All further references to this work will be cited in the text as CR. Google Scholar 13 W. H. Hudson, A Crystal Age (1887; New York: Doric Books, 1950), 174–175. Google Scholar 14 Grant Allen, The British Barbarians (1895; Lenox MA: HardPress, n.d.), 58. Google Scholar 15 H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia (1905; London: Penguin Books, 2005), 224. Google Scholar 16 H. Rider Haggard, She and King Solomon's Mines (1887; New York: Modern Library, 1957), 216. Google Scholar 17 Walter Besant, The Fourth Generation (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1900), 247; for the eugenics passage, see 324–325. Google Scholar 18Of course neither did many thoughtful late-Victorian evolutionists, ranging from Thomas H. Huxley to Weismann. But during the last decades of the nineteenth century, they were in the minority among both novelists and scientists. Google Scholar 19 J. B. S. Haldane, The Causes of Evolution (1932; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), 34. All further references to this work will be cited in the text as CE. Google Scholar 20 Julian Huxley, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942), 22. Google Scholar 21Ibid., 26. Google Scholar 22 J. B. S. Haldane, The Inequality of Man (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931), 249–250. Google Scholar 23 Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay (1923; Normal IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1997), 94. Google Scholar 24Ibid. Google Scholar 25 Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Pentateuch (London: Constable and Co, 1921), xvi. Google Scholar 26Ibid., xvi. Google Scholar 27Ibid., xxi. Google Scholar 28Ibid., xxiii. Google Scholar 29 Aldous Huxley, Those Barren Leaves (1925; Champaign IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1998), 32, 79. Google Scholar 30Quoted in Jeremy Hsu, ' Science Behind Cloud Atlas Clones Is Closer Than You Think'; http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/science-behind-cloud-atlas-clones-is-closer than-you-think. Google Scholar 31See Cloud Atlas, dir. Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, and Lana Wachowski (Warner Bros., 2012). Google Scholar 32Tom Stoppard makes that point in his play Arcadia when he has a mathematician muse that calculating iterated algorithms would have been insane prior to the invention of the computer. Google Scholar 33 Barnes and Dupré, Genomes and What to Make of Them, 8. Google Scholar 34Ibid., 49. Google Scholar 35Ibid., 49. Google Scholar Citing Literature Volume55, Issue1Special Issue: Victorian StudiesApril 2013Pages 57-74 ReferencesRelatedInformation
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