Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction – Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution 1
6. PART ONE: Romanticism’s Darwin
7. 1 Plants, Analogy, and Perfection: Loose and Strict Analogies 27
8. 2 Darwin and the Mobility of Species 45
9. 3 Darwin’s Ideas 68
10. PART TWO: Romantic Temporalities
11. 4 Deep Time in the South Pacific: Scientific Voyaging and the Ancient/Primitive Analogy 93
12. 5 Malthus Our Contemporary? Toward a Political Economy of Sex 122
13. PART THREE: Goethe and the Contigencies of Life
14. 9 Did Goethe and Schelling Endorse Species Evolution? 145
15. 10 The Vitality of Idealism: Life and Evolution in Schelling’s and Hegel’s Systems 239
16. 11 Degeneration: Inversions of Teleology 270
17. Contributors 301
18. Index 305