Marking Time, edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing its origins to the literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the long nineteenth century.

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Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution

Joel Faflak

Part 1 Romanticism's Darwin

1. Plants, Analogy, and Perfection: Loose and Strict Analogies

Gillian Beer

2. Darwin and the Mobility of Species

Alan Bewell

3. Darwin’s Ideas

Matthew Rowlinson

Part 2 Romantic Temporalities

4. Deep Time in the South Pacific: Scientific Voyaging and the Ancient/Primitive

Analogy

Noah Heringman

5. Malthus Our Contemporary?: Toward a Political Economy of Sex

Maureen N. McLane

Part 3 Goethe and the Contingencies of Life

6. Goethe's Morphology

Gábor Áron Zemplén

7. Vertiginous Life: Goethe, Bones, and Italy

Andrew Piper

8. Taking Chances

Theresa M. Kelley

Part 4 Evolutionary Idealisms

9. Did Goethe and Schelling Endorse Species Evolution?

Robert J. Richards

10. The Vitality of Idealism: Life and Evolution in Schelling’s and Hegel’s Systems

Tilottama Rajan

11. Degeneration: Inversions of Teleology

Joan Steigerwald

Contributors

Index