After Darwin: animals, emotions, and the mind

384 Pages·2013·6.518 MB·English

by  Darwin, Charles;Richardson, Angelique

After Darwin
Animals, Emotions, and the Mind
Clio Medica: Perspectives in
Medical Humanities
93
Brian Dolan (General Editor), University of
California, San Francisco
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, University of Toronto
Cornelius Borck, Institute for the History of
Science at Lubeck
Patrizia Guarnieri, University of Florence
Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University
Rhodri Hayward, Queen Mary, University of
London
Jessica Howell, King’s College, London
Niranjan Karnik, University of Chicago Medical
Center
Guy Micco, University of California, Berkeley
Kathryn Montgomery, Northwestern University,
Chicago
Christer Nordlund, Umeå University
Johanna Shapiro, University of California, Irvine
After Darwin
Animals, Emotions, and the Mind
Edited by
Angelique Richardson
Amsterdam - New York, NY 2013
Cover illustration: Robert Braithwaite Martineau, Kit’s Writing
Lesson (1852), reproduced courtesy of the Tate Gallery.
The paper on which this book is printed meets the
requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and
documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for
permanence”.
ISBN: 978-90-420-3747-2
E-Book ISBN: 978-94-012-0998-4
© Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam – New York, NY 2013
Printed in The Netherlands
At last I fell asleep on the grass, & awoke with a chorus of birds singing
around me, & squirrels running up the trees, & some Woodpeckers
laughing, & it was as pleasant & rural a scene as ever I saw, & I did not care
one penny how any of the beasts & birds had been formed.
Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin, April 1858
Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on Contributors xi
List of Illustrations xv
Introduction: Darwin and Interdisciplinarity:
A Historical Perspective
Angelique Richardson 1
1. ‘Love and Hatred are Common to the Whole
Sensitive Creation’: Animal Feeling in the Century
before Darwin
Jane Spencer 24
2. ‘The Book of The Season’: The Conception and
Reception of Darwin’s Expression
Angelique Richardson 51
3. The Backbone Shiver: Darwin and the Arts
Gillian Beer 89
4. Becoming an Animal: Darwin and the Evolution
of Sympathy
Paul White 112
5. George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and Darwin: Animals,
Emotions, and Morals
Angelique Richardson 136
6. Between Medicine and Evolutionary Theory:
Sympathy and Other Emotional Investments in Life
Writings by and about Charles Darwin
David Amigoni 172
7. From Entangled Vision to Ethical Engagement:
Darwin, Affect, and Contemporary Exhibition
Projects
Monika Pietrzak-Franger 193
8. Reckoning with the Emotions: Neurological
Responses to the Theory of Evolution, 1870-1930
L.S. Jacyna 215
9. Darwin’s Changing Expression and the Making of
the Modern State
Rhodri Hayward 236
10. Calling the Wild: Selection, Domestication, and
Species
Harriet Ritvo 262
11.The Development of Emotional Life
Michael Lewis 281
Afterword: The Emotional and Moral Lives of
Animals: What Darwin Would Have Said
Marc Bekoff 305
Index 333
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the Wellcome Trust for sponsoring a symposium
at Exeter on Darwin, Medicine and the Humanities in 2009
(WT089531MA) which provided the impetus for several of the essays
in this volume. I am also grateful to the British Academy for a research
grant in 2010 (SG090832) which allowed further collaboration with
scientists and humanities scholars, and to the University of Exeter. I
am especially grateful to the Wellcome Trust for a Research Leave
Award (WT096507AIA) which allowed me to bring this project to
completion. I would also like to thank the editors of the Darwin
Correspondence Project and the librarians of Cambridge University
Library. I am grateful to a number of scholars, either for participating
in the symposium, or for helping to shape this collection in other
ways; these include Marc Bekoff, Carolyn Burdett, Thomas Dixon,
John Dupré, Regenia Gagnier, Lee Grieveson, Mark Jackson, Tim
Kendall, Phillip Mallett, Nick McDowell, Andrew McRae, John
Plunkett, Dorothy Porter, Richard Seaford, Jane Spencer and Paul
White. I would also like to thank my colleagues in Exeter’s Wellcome
Trust-funded Centre for Medical History; the Centre for Genomics
in Society (Egenis); and the Centre for Victorian Studies; Brian
Dolan, general editor of this series, and co-director of the University
of California Medical Humanities Consortium, for valued support,
and for design and production; and, for excellent editorial assistance,
Demelza Hookway. My special thanks go to the anonymous referees
and to the contributors who made collaboration across and within
disciplines such an illuminating and rewarding experience.
This publication in the Clio Medica series would not be possible
without the generous support of the University of California Office of
the President which funded the Multi-Campus Research Program grant
for the University of California Medical Humanities Consortium, and
the Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California,
San Francisco. I also recognise the valuable support provided by the
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at UCSF
and the Center for Humanities and Health Sciences for making the
book series possible.
Notes on Contributors
David Amigoni is Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele
University. He is the editor (with Jeff Wallace) of Charles Darwin’s
Origin of Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays (1995); and author of
Colonies, Cults and Evolution: Literature, Science and Culture and Nineteenth-
Century Writing (2007). He is presently engaged in interdisciplinary,
collaborative research on gerontology and culture. Longer term, he
is working on a study of ideas of inheritance in literary and scientific
intellectual families in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Dame Gillian Beer is Professor Emeritus at the University of
Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the
Royal Society of Literature and is a Foreign Honorary Member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Honorary
International Member of the American Philosophical Society. From
2009-2011 she was the Andrew W. Mellon Senior Scholar at the Yale
Center for British Art. She is President of the British Literature and
Science Society. Among her books are Darwin’s Plots (1983; 2000; third
edition, 2009), George Eliot (1986), Arguing with the Past (1989), Open
Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996), Virginia Woolf: The Common
Ground (1996). She is completing a study of Lewis Carroll’s Alice
books in the context of nineteenth-century intellectual controversies
and her collected and annotated edition of the poetry of Lewis Carroll
was published by Penguin Classics in 2012. She is General Editor of
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.
Marc Bekoff is Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Bi-
ology at the University of Colorado and a former Guggenheim Fel-
low. In 2000 he was awarded the Exemplar Award from the Animal
Behavior Society for major long-term contributions to the field of
animal behavior and in 2009 he was presented with the Saint Francis
of Assisi Award by the Auckland (New Zealand) SPCA. Marc has
published more than 300 scientific and popular essays and twenty-two
books including Minding Animals, The Ten Trusts (with Jane Goodall),