@book{publication-4242,
  year = {2018},
  publisher = {Brill},
  isbn = {978-90-04-38516-0},
  series = {Faux Titre 431},
  edition = {1},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004385160},
  address = {Leiden/Boston},
  title = {Biological Time, Historical Time: Transfers and Transformations in 19th Century Literature},
  editor = {Niklas Bender and Gisèle Séginger},
  note = {Vereint die Tagungsbeiträge zur deutsch-französischen Doppeltagung “Temps biologique, temps historique” (Forum Scientiarum Tübingen, April 2014, und Fondation des Maisons des sciences de l’homme Paris, Oktober 2014)},
  abstract = {Biological Time, Historical Time presents a new approach to 19th century thought and literature: by focussing on the subject of time, it offers a new perspective on the exchanges between French and German literary texts on the one hand and scientific disciplines on the other. Hence, the rivalling influences of the historical sciences and of the life sciences on literary texts are explored, texts from various scientific domains – medicine, natural history, biology, history, and multiple forms of vulgarisation – are investigated. Literary texts are analysed in their participation in and transformation of the scientific imagination. Special attention is accorded to the temporal dimension: this allows for an innovative account of key concepts of 19th century culture.

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The Authors
Introduction
 Niklas Bender and Gisèle Séginger
Part 1: Rethinking the Order of Time
From Biblical Time to Darwinian Time: Discourses on the Living World in the 18th and 19th Centuries
 Pascal Duris
Memory Strata, Geology and Change of Historical Paradigm in France around 1830
 Paule Petitier
Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, “maître Georges” and the Advance of Nature
 Claude Blanckaert
From Biological Time to Historical Time: the Category of “Development” (Entwicklung) in the Historical Thought of Herder, Kant, Hegel, and Marx
 Christophe Bouton
“O man! wilt thou never conceive that thou art but an ephemeron?”: the Reception of Geological Deep Time in the Late 18th Century
 David Schulz
Part 2: Atavism and Heredity
The Law of Progress, Atavism, and Prehistory in the Belle Époque
 Arnaud Hurel
Nietzsche, or Culture Put to the Test at the Timescale of Heredity
 Emmanuel Salanskis
Zola, Hereditability of Character and Hereditability of Deviation: After a Remark by Bergson in L’Évolution Créatrice
 Arnaud François
Life, Sex and Temporality in Zola’s La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret
 Rudolf Behrens
Part 3: Nature and Culture
Time of History and Time of Nature in the Historical Novels of Victor Hugo
 Niklas Bender
Historical Time, Cultural Time, and Biological Time in Baudelaire
 Thomas Klinkert
Evolution and Time in the Chants de Maldoror
 Frank Jäger
Memory of the Body in Proust: Historical Time and Biological Time
 Edward Bizub
Part 4: Poetics of Time
The Poetics of Restored Time: Balzac, His Age and the Figure of Cuvier
 Hugues Marchal
The Evolution of Social Species in Balzac’s Comédie humaine
 Sandra Collet
Time as Imagined in the Evolutionary Epic
 Nicolas Wanlin
Evolutionism and Successivity in Antediluviana, Poème géologique by Ernest Cotty (1876)
 Yohann Ringuedé
End of the World, End of Time: the Theory of Evolution and Its Fate in the Novel of Anticipation
 Claire Barel-Moisan
A Biologist Literary History: August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Franco-German Natural Sciences
 Stefan Knödler
Part 5: Biology and Ideology
Evolutionary Time and Revolutionary Time (Michelet, Flaubert, Zola)
 Juliette Azoulai
Michelet and La Mer: Biology and the Philosophy of History
 Gisèle Séginger
“Il faut manger et être mangé pour que le monde vive”: the Zolian Belly amidst Evolution, Revolution, and Convolutions
 Carine Goutaland
Gobineau’s Heroes Are Ageless
 Pierre-Louis Rey
Darwinus anarchistus explodens: Science and the Legend of the Struggle for Life (Louise Michel)
 Claude Rétat
Index},
  keywords = {Literatur und Wissenschaft,19. Jahrhundert,Wissenschaftsgeschichte,Philosophie,Biologie,Geologie,Flaubert Gustave,Hugo Victor,Michelet Jules,Zola Émile,Cuvier Georges,Balzac Honoré de,Bergson Henri,Schlegel August Wilhelm,Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,Cotty Ernest,Nietzsche Friedrich,Buffon Georges-Louis Leclerc de,Gobineau Arthur de,Literaturwissenschaft,Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft,Französisch},
}
