Marking Time

Joel Faflak is professor of English and Theory at Western University, where he was also the Inaugural Director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities.

• List of IllustrationsMarking Time: Romanticism and EvolutionJoel FaflakPart 1 Romanticism's Darwin1. Plants, Analogy, and Perfection: Loose and Strict AnalogiesGillian Beer2. Darwin and the Mobility of SpeciesAlan Bewell3. Darwin’s IdeasMatthew RowlinsonPart 2 Romantic Temporalities4. Deep Time in the South Pacific: Scientific Voyaging and the Ancient/PrimitiveAnalogyNoah Heringman5. Malthus Our Contemporary?: Toward a Political Economy of SexMaureen N. McLanePart 3 Goethe and the Contingencies of Life6. Goethe's MorphologyGábor Áron Zemplén7. Vertiginous Life: Goethe, Bones, and ItalyAndrew Piper8. Taking ChancesTheresa M. KelleyPart 4 Evolutionary Idealisms9. Did Goethe and Schelling Endorse Species Evolution?Robert J. Richards10. The Vitality of Idealism: Life and Evolution in Schelling’s and Hegel’s SystemsTilottama Rajan11. Degeneration: Inversions of TeleologyJoan SteigerwaldContributorsIndex

"…the essays in this volume offer interesting contributions to our understanding of the Romantic conception of natural history and its relation to Darwinian evolution – pointing toward the possibility of expanding the contours of the ‘Romantic Darwin’ narrative."- Andrea Gambarotto, Universite Catholique de Louvain (HPLS) "Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution, thoughtfully edited by Joel Faflak, presents a multiplicity of thinkers delving deeply into the possibility and potential for entanglement among temporality, Romanticism, and evolution."- Dewey W. Hall, California State Polytechnic University (European Romantic Review) "There is much to learn from Marking Time, both in terms of how evolution served as a pervasive concept and metaphor across multiple discourses and disciplines in the Romantic era, and in the specific writings and authors analyzed in individual chapters, in which familiar texts are made unfamiliar and unfamiliar texts are brought to the forefront. Marking Time will surely have a major effect on future studies of Romantic science and the history of evolution."- Seth T. Reno Auburn, University at Montgomery (Clio) "Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution offers excellent contributions to these diverse fields of study, and Faflak’s timely collection leaves readers with a portrait of Romantic evolution’s own entangled bank of topics and concepts far knottier—and more interesting—than the one familiar from more traditional histories of Darwinian evolutionary science."- Andrew Bukett (Isis)