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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 – 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.
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 l’Homme 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 l’Homme in Paris. She is a specialist on Flaubert, Nerval, Musset and on the relations between literature and scientific knowledge.
The Authors
Introduction
Niklas Bender and Gisèle Séginger
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.