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Academic & Professional Books  Evolutionary Biology  Human Evolution

Darwin and the Memory of the Human Evolution, Savages, and South America

By: Cannon Schmitt
260 pages, 5 b/w illus
Darwin and the Memory of the Human
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When the young Charles Darwin landed on the shores of Tierra del Fuego in 1832, he was overwhelmed: nothing had prepared him for the sight of what he called an untamed savage. The shock he felt, repeatedly recalled in later years, definitively shaped his theory of evolution.

In this original and wide-ranging study, Cannon Schmitt shows how Darwin and other Victorian naturalists transformed such encounters with South America and its indigenous peoples into influential accounts of biological and historical change. Redefining what it means to be human, they argue that the modern self must be understood in relation to a variety of pasts - personal, historical and ancestral - conceived of as savage. Schmitt reshapes our understanding of Victorian imperialism, revisits the implications of Darwinian theory, and demonstrates the pertinence of nineteenth-century biological thought to current theorizations of memory.

Contents

Introduction; 1. Charles Darwin's savage mnemonics; 2. Alfred Russel Wallace's tropical memorabilia; 3. Charles Kingsley's recollected empire; 4. W. H. Hudson's memory of loss; Coda: some reflections.

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Biography

Cannon Schmitt is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto.
By: Cannon Schmitt
260 pages, 5 b/w illus
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'... brilliant, original ... ultimately satisfying... The book is impressive ... brilliant attention to language ... wonderful book.' George Levine, Rutgers University and New York University
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