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100 1 $aFaggen, Robert.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96055016
245 10 $aRobert Frost and the challenge of Darwin /$cRobert Faggen.
260 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axii, 363 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 347-357) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tThe Fact Is the Sweetest Dream: Darwin, Pragmatism, and Poetic Knowledge --$gCh. 2.$tWhat to Make of a Diminished Thing: Birds, Insects, and Downward Comparisons --$gCh. 3.$tPlay for Mortal Stakes: Labor, Community, and Nature's Chaos --$gCh. 4.$tTools and Weapons: Man, Technology, and Nature --$gCh. 5.$tThe Lovely Shall Be Choosers: Women, Nature, and Domestic Conflict --$gCh. 6.$tDescent into Matter: Natural History and the End of Theodicy --$tEpilogue: Choosing Stars and Picking Apples.
520 $aIn Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin, Frost's poetry is viewed as a powerful response to Charles Darwin and the implications of modern science. Combining both intellectual history and detailed analysis of Frost's poems, Robert Faggen shows how Frost's reading of Darwin reflected the significance of science in American culture from Emerson and Thoreau through James and pragmatism.
520 8 $aHe provides fresh and provocative readings of many of Frost's shorter lyrics and longer pastoral narratives as they illustrate the impact of Darwinian thought on the concept of nature, with particular exploration of man's relationship to other creatures, the conditions of human equality and racial conflict, the impact of gender and sexual differences, and the survival of religion.
520 8 $aFaggen draws on Frost's unpublished notebooks to reveal a complex thinker who willingly engaged with the difficult moral and epistemological implications of natural science and showed their consonance with myths and traditions stretching back to Milton, Lucretius, and the Old Testament. Frost emerges as a thinker for whom poetry was not only artistic expression but also a forum for the trial of ideas and their impact on humanity.
520 8 $aRobert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin provides a deeper understanding not only of Frost and modern poetry but of the meaning of Darwin in the modern world, the complex interrelations of literature and science, and the history of American thought.
600 10 $aFrost, Robert,$d1874-1963$xKnowledge and learning.
650 0 $aScience.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118553
650 0 $aLiterature and science$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009129911
650 0 $aNatural history.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090222
600 10 $aDarwin, Charles,$d1809-1882$xInfluence.
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$xEnglish influences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009114830
650 0 $aNatural history in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008420
650 0 $aEvolution in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004134
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3511.R94$iZ643 1997