Darwin's Footprint

Maria Zarimis is Adjunct lecturer in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

"The book is a highly valuable one for students of literature and science, both with and without Greek language skills. Studies of Darwinian culture are dominated by Anglo-American subjects, and so alternative approaches, made possible by critics, like Zarimis, with the multilinguistic abilities to tap underutilised areas, can only be of benefit to the current literature. Works such as this provide an eye-opening view to unique and captivating material that scholars have barely yet touched."

• List of IllustrationsPreface and Acknowledgements Chapter One. IntroductionXenopoulos: Case StudyEvolutionary TheoriesSocial Implications of EvolutionismDarwinism in Literature and CriticismDarwinian Themes in International LiteratureGeneral Reception and Impact of Darwinism in GreeceFuture Direction of the Greek Race: Eugenics and Post-Darwinian Discourse Chapter Two. The Darwinian Impact on Modern Greek Writers“Voltaire” and “Dock”Emmanuel RoidisKostis PalamasNikos KazantzakisAlexandros PapadiamantisAppendix. Poem: Τόπο αλλάζει and Its English TranslationPoem: Δαρβίνος and Its English Translation Chapter Three. Darwinian reflections: Children’s GuidanceScience and PositivismHeldreich and GradualismThe Gender DivideScience and ReligionPhysiognomies and Expressionsi Chapter Four. A Re-Reading of Rich and poor: It’s All in the EyesLiterary Criticism, the “Note” and ProloguePhysiognomy, Expressions and Natural SelectionThe Eyes ― Mirror of the Soul Chapter Five. Metamorphoses of Woman: dangerous fantasiesXenopoulos’ CommentsLiterary CriticismTransforming TerezaExtinctions Chapter Six. New Woman, Degeneration/Regeneration and The Descent of Man“The three-sided woman”“Τhe night of degeneration” EpilogueBibliographyAddendum: The Female Sex’s Handbookt