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Biological Time, Historical Time
Transfers and Transformations in 19th Century Literature
Series: - Faux Titre, Volume: 431
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 â medicine, natural history, biology, history, and multiple forms of vulgarisation â 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.
Niklas Bender is substitute Professor for Romance Literatures at Trier and Tübingen University. His works focus on literature and science, comic procedures, laughter and anthropology. Recently, he published The Laughter of Art: the Contribution of the Comic to Modernist Literature.
Gisèle Séginger, full professor at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and member of the Institut Universitaire de France, is the founder of the Centre de Recherche Littératures, Savoirs et Arts (LISAA) and director of a research program at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de lâHomme in Paris. She is a specialist on Flaubert, Nerval, Musset and on the relations between literature and scientific knowledge.
Gisèle Séginger, full professor at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and member of the Institut Universitaire de France, is the founder of the Centre de Recherche Littératures, Savoirs et Arts (LISAA) and director of a research program at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de lâHomme in Paris. She is a specialist on Flaubert, Nerval, Musset and on the relations between literature and scientific knowledge.
The Authors
Introduction
âNiklas Bender and Gisèle Séginger
From Biblical Time to Darwinian Time: Discourses on the Living World in the 18th and 19th Centuries
âPascal Duris
Memory Strata, Geology and Change of Historical Paradigm in France around 1830
âPaule Petitier
Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, âmaître Georgesâ and the Advance of Nature
âClaude Blanckaert
From Biological Time to Historical Time: the Category of âDevelopmentâ (Entwicklung) in the Historical Thought of Herder, Kant, Hegel, and Marx
âChristophe Bouton
âO man! wilt thou never conceive that thou art but an ephemeron?â: the Reception of Geological Deep Time in the Late 18th Century
âDavid Schulz
The Law of Progress, Atavism, and Prehistory in the Belle Ãpoque
âArnaud Hurel
Nietzsche, or Culture Put to the Test at the Timescale of Heredity
âEmmanuel Salanskis
Zola, Hereditability of Character and Hereditability of Deviation: After a Remark by Bergson in LâÃvolution Créatrice
âArnaud François
Life, Sex and Temporality in Zolaâs La Faute de lâAbbé Mouret
âRudolf Behrens
Time of History and Time of Nature in the Historical Novels of Victor Hugo
âNiklas Bender
Historical Time, Cultural Time, and Biological Time in Baudelaire
âThomas Klinkert
Evolution and Time in the Chants de Maldoror
âFrank Jäger
Memory of the Body in Proust: Historical Time and Biological Time
âEdward Bizub
The Poetics of Restored Time: Balzac, His Age and the Figure of Cuvier
âHugues Marchal
The Evolution of Social Species in Balzacâs Comédie humaine
âSandra Collet
Time as Imagined in the Evolutionary Epic
âNicolas Wanlin
Evolutionism and Successivity in Antediluviana, Poème géologique by Ernest Cotty (1876)
âYohann Ringuedé
End of the World, End of Time: the Theory of Evolution and Its Fate in the Novel of Anticipation
âClaire Barel-Moisan
A Biologist Literary History: August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Franco-German Natural Sciences
âStefan Knödler
Evolutionary Time and Revolutionary Time (Michelet, Flaubert, Zola)
âJuliette Azoulai
Michelet and La Mer: Biology and the Philosophy of History
âGisèle Séginger
âIl faut manger et être mangé pour que le monde viveâ: the Zolian Belly amidst Evolution, Revolution, and Convolutions
âCarine Goutaland
Gobineauâs Heroes Are Ageless
âPierre-Louis Rey
Darwinus anarchistus explodens: Science and the Legend of the Struggle for Life (Louise Michel)
âClaude Rétat
Index
Introduction
âNiklas 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
âPascal Duris
Memory Strata, Geology and Change of Historical Paradigm in France around 1830
âPaule Petitier
Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, âmaître Georgesâ and the Advance of Nature
âClaude Blanckaert
From Biological Time to Historical Time: the Category of âDevelopmentâ (Entwicklung) in the Historical Thought of Herder, Kant, Hegel, and Marx
âChristophe Bouton
âO man! wilt thou never conceive that thou art but an ephemeron?â: the Reception of Geological Deep Time in the Late 18th Century
âDavid Schulz
Part 2: Atavism and Heredity
The Law of Progress, Atavism, and Prehistory in the Belle Ãpoque
âArnaud Hurel
Nietzsche, or Culture Put to the Test at the Timescale of Heredity
âEmmanuel Salanskis
Zola, Hereditability of Character and Hereditability of Deviation: After a Remark by Bergson in LâÃvolution Créatrice
âArnaud François
Life, Sex and Temporality in Zolaâs La Faute de lâAbbé Mouret
âRudolf Behrens
Part 3: Nature and Culture
Time of History and Time of Nature in the Historical Novels of Victor Hugo
âNiklas Bender
Historical Time, Cultural Time, and Biological Time in Baudelaire
âThomas Klinkert
Evolution and Time in the Chants de Maldoror
âFrank Jäger
Memory of the Body in Proust: Historical Time and Biological Time
âEdward Bizub
Part 4: Poetics of Time
The Poetics of Restored Time: Balzac, His Age and the Figure of Cuvier
âHugues Marchal
The Evolution of Social Species in Balzacâs Comédie humaine
âSandra Collet
Time as Imagined in the Evolutionary Epic
âNicolas Wanlin
Evolutionism and Successivity in Antediluviana, Poème géologique by Ernest Cotty (1876)
âYohann Ringuedé
End of the World, End of Time: the Theory of Evolution and Its Fate in the Novel of Anticipation
âClaire Barel-Moisan
A Biologist Literary History: August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Franco-German Natural Sciences
âStefan Knödler
Part 5: Biology and Ideology
Evolutionary Time and Revolutionary Time (Michelet, Flaubert, Zola)
âJuliette Azoulai
Michelet and La Mer: Biology and the Philosophy of History
âGisèle Séginger
âIl faut manger et être mangé pour que le monde viveâ: the Zolian Belly amidst Evolution, Revolution, and Convolutions
âCarine Goutaland
Gobineauâs Heroes Are Ageless
âPierre-Louis Rey
Darwinus anarchistus explodens: Science and the Legend of the Struggle for Life (Louise Michel)
âClaude Rétat
Index
All interested in French and German 19th century literature, in the relationship between literature and sciences, and in the history of the concept of time.