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Autobiologies: Charles Darwin and the Natural History of the Self
Bucknell University Press (2014)
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The nineteenth century saw both an explosion of evolutionary ideas and an explosion in autobiographical writing. This book examines the collision between evolutionary thought and practices of self-representation, to show how nineteenth-century natural history refashioned the human subjectOther Versions
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