Larson traces the history of the contentious concept of evolution from Darwin's predecessors, like Cuvier and Lyell, to his early advocates, like Asa Gray and Thomas Huxley, and "postmodern" advocates such as Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins.
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"'Hurry' is an intrinsic component of modernity. It exists not only in tandem with modern constructions of mobility, speed, rhythm, and time-space compression, but also with infrastructures, technologies, practices, and emotions associated with the experience of the 'mobilizing …
Introduction: Between relationality and scalarity -- The labor of superfluity: Hannah Arendt, empire, and the Jews -- Colonial conspiracies: racializing Jews in the era of empire -- Men on horseback (1): the Marquis de Mores, nationalism, and imperial space-time -- Men on horseb…
"In Framing Attention, Lutz Koepnick explores different concepts of the window - in both a literal and a figurative sense - as manifested in various visual forms in German culture from the nineteenth century to the present. He offers a new interpretation of how evolving ways of …
"Inscription and Modernity: from Wordsworth to Mandelstam charts the vicissitudes of inscriptive poetry produced in the midst of the great and catastrophic political, social, and intellectual upheavals of the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries." "Focusing on three revolu…
Zusammenfassung: The recent emergence of the discipline of literary animal studies regards literature in itself as constitutive element of a history of knowledge. The discipline has led not only to the expansion of the corpus of texts traditionally connected with animals, but al…