Autobiologies

Charles Darwin and the Natural History of the Self

• Author(s): Alexis Harley,
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Pages: 213
• ISBN_10: 1611486025
  ISBN_13: 9781611486025
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , History / Modern / 19th Century , Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Nonfiction (incl. Memoirs) , Literary Criticism / European / General , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General , Philosophy / History & Surveys / General ,

Description:... The nineteenth century saw both an explosion of evolutionary ideas and an explosion in autobiographical writing. This book examines the collision between evolutionary thought and practices of self-representation, to show how nineteenth-century natural history refashioned the human subject.