After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind

Angelique Richardson is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, where she is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Medical History, and an Associate Research Fellow of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis). Her research and teaching interests embrace Victorian Studies, medical humanities and animal studies, and she has published widely on aspects of Victorian science and culture. Her books include Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman (Oxford University Press, 2003); as editor Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890–1914 (Penguin Classics, 2005) and Essentialism in Science and Culture, Critical Quarterly Special Issue (2011); and, as coeditor, Victorian Literature: A Sourcebook (Palgrave, 2012). She is now completing Thomas Hardy and Biology.

"Richardson [...] has brought together a group of eminent literary critics, including Gillian Beer and David Amigoni, and high-caliber historians of the emotions [...] with leading contemporary evolutionay biologists and psychologists [...] this cross-disciplinary conjunction does raise some pertinent and highly interesting questions."– Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester), in: Victorian Studies, Volume 58, No. 2, p. 354-356."After Darwin not only offers a fascinatingly diverse collection of ways to approach Darwin’s influential concenption of the emotions in an evolutionary framework, with contributions from experts in literature, psychology, biology and history, it also provides a rich impetus for future investigations."– Andrew Ball, University of Manchester, in Social History of Medicine 28.1 (2015) pp. 206-207“extremely interesting and well organized collection of 11 original essays. […] no summary of these essays will sufficiently indicate their richness. […] This book shows how Darwin’s scientific theory – the product itself of deep imaginative sympathy – helped to transform our understanding of both humans and animals.”– George Levine (Rutgers University), in The George Eliot Review 45 (2014), pp. 83-85 "The book […] really intrigued me. […] I hope that [this book] somehow [finds its] way into your hands in the not too distant future. [It] really [is] that good."– Mark Bekoff (University of Colorado), in Psychology Today: Animal Emotions 12 December 2013.For the full review see: PSYCHOLOGY TODAY/ANIMAL EMOTIONS"Guided by the assumption that science and culture are at all times reciprocal, After Darwin successfully bridges the gap between science and the humanities. It also typifies the rising interest in the emotions as a field of study in their own right and is furthermore representative of Harriet Ritvo’sobservation of ten years ago that ‘animals have been edging towards the academic mainstream’ (p. 8). Some chapters integrate less well into the overall agenda of the volume, but they all offer a unique way of thinking about emotions, animals and human nature, at the centre of which we ultimately find Darwin himself."– Stephanie Eichberg in: The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp. 523 - 525.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Darwin and Interdisciplinarity: A Historical PerspectiveAngelique Richardson‘Love and Hatred are Common to the Whole Sensitive Creation’: Animal Feeling in the Century before DarwinJane Spencer‘The Book of The Season’: The Conception and Reception of Darwin’s ExpressionAngelique RichardsonThe Backbone Shiver: Darwin and the Arts Gillian BeerBecoming an Animal: Darwin and the Evolution of SympathyPaul WhiteGeorge Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and MoralsAngelique RichardsonBetween Medicine and Evolutionary Theory: Sympathy and Other Emotional Investments in Life Writings by and about Charles DarwinDavid AmigoniFrom Entangled Vision to Ethical Engagement: Darwin, Affect, and Contemporary Exhibition ProjectsMonika Pietrzak-FrangerReckoning with the Emotions: Neurological Responses to the Theory of Evolution, 1870-1930L.S. JacynaDarwin’s Changing Expression and the Making of the Modern StateRhodri HaywardCalling the Wild: Selection, Domestication, and SpeciesHarriet RitvoThe Development of Emotional LifeMichael LewisAfterword: The Emotional and Moral Lives of Animals: What Darwin Would Have SaidMarc BekoffIndex