Though the Romantic era is often imagined as the “age of revolution,” recent criticism in the field has seen renewed interest in Romanticism's relationship to evolution, including the resurgence of such topics as organicism, vitalism, natural history, and natural philosophy, as well as other salient themes from the physical and life sciences. This essay offers a contextual introduction for a cluster of articles around the topic of evolution as a concept for literary theory and criticism in Romantic studies, articles that focus critical attention on complex evolutionary ideas like contingency, chance, species transformation, monstrosity, extinction, and the inhuman. The aim of Romantic Evolutions is to reimagine prevailing notions of evolution by tracing their modern origins to literary, cultural, and scientific discourses of the transitional period 1775–1859, a time that witnessed the genesis of the modern idea of “literature” alongside of the emergence of specialized disciplines, such as geology, biology, physiology, chemistry, psychology, and anthropology. Instead of searching through 18th- and early 19th-century science for “forerunners” to the Darwinian revolution, the essays in the volume focus attention on the important contributions of Romantic poets, philosophers, and scientists who have too often been overlooked by the empirical sciences. And yet, by shifting the central focus away from Darwin and his theory of natural selection, contributors also revisit his relationship to Romanticism with fresh eyes. Taken together, the volume seeks to provoke a reevaluation of our current understanding of the Romantic conception of evolution, one that will open new critical perspectives and orientations for scholars within and beyond the field.

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浪漫进化：简介

尽管浪漫主义时代通常被认为是“革命时代”，但最近对该领域的批评使人们对浪漫主义与进化的关系重新产生了兴趣，包括有机主义，生命主义，自然历史和自然哲学等话题的兴起。以及物理和生命科学中的其他重要主题。本文提供了上下文相关的文章介绍，围绕进化论作为浪漫主义研究中的文学理论和批评的概念，这些文章将重点放在偶然性，偶然性，物种转化，怪异，灭绝和进化等复杂的进化思想上。不人道。《浪漫主义进化论》的目的是通过追溯其现代起源到文学，文化，以及1775年至1859年过渡时期的科学话语，这段时期见证了现代“文学”思想的起源，以及诸如地质，生物学，生理学，化学，心理学和人类学等专业学科的兴起。本书中的论文没有在18世纪和19世纪初期寻找“达尔文革命”的“先驱者”，而是将注意力集中在浪漫主义诗人，哲学家和科学家的重要贡献上，而经验主义科学常常忽视了浪漫主义诗人，哲学家和科学家的重要贡献。 。然而，通过将焦点从达尔文及其自然选择理论转移开来，贡献者也以崭新的眼光重新审视了他与浪漫主义的关系。两者合计，旨在激发对我们目前对浪漫主义进化观的理解的重新评估，