While Dragging Our Hearts Behind Us
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Collectives of Evolution
American Culture, Science, and the Fight for Social Justice, 1880-1917
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The nineteenth century was the century of evolution. No theories made a comparably seismic impact on Western intellectual life as those of Darwin, Spencer, and Lamarck. In the U.S., their ideas forced authors to rethink what it meant to be American amid racial tensions and calls for women’s rights. Heinrich-David Baumgart traces how notions like uplift, eugenics, and the unconscious shaped a discursive landscape in which marginalized groups claimed social equality around 1900. Reading authors such as Frances E. W. Harper and Kate Chopin, the volume offers scholars of American literature, cultural history, and the life sciences a new perspective on the entangled histories of evolutionary thought, social emancipation, and cultural identity.
Heinrich-David Baumgart studied American studies, history, and literature in Berlin, Seattle, and Paris. He received his PhD from the Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests include memory cultures, the history of early psychoanalysis, and modern cultures of the self.
- ISBN-13
- 9783837684544
- Publisher
- transcript
- Imprint
- transcript
- Publication date
- 28 February 2027
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 280
- Dimensions
- 225 x 148 mm
- Language
- English
