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Christine Lehleiter is assistant professor of German at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on literature and the life sciences.
List of Illustrations
Notes on Translations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Between Freedom and Determination
One: The Discovery of Heredity
Two: Incest and Inbreeding
Three: Cross-breeding and Hybridization
Four: From Blood to Trauma
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
This work has the potential to change the landscape of Romantic literary studies, and its careful attention to scientific accuracy will let it serve as a model for those scholars who wish to make a serious contribution to the broad field defined by intersections of literature and science.
— Monatshefte
Lehleiter’s highly original monograph is the first to examine the German novel of the turn of the nineteenth century in the context of the debates on biological heredity (ranging from plant and animal breeding to early theories of evolution) taking place in the latereighteenth century in England, France, and Germany.
— Jane K. Brown, University of Washington