Description: An engaging collection of interdisciplinary essays on the distinctive qualities of America's textual engagement with Darwinian evolutionary theory, especially in regard to On the Origin of Species, which highlights the influence of prevalent cultural anxieties on interpretation.
Brief description: TINA GIANQUITTO is an associate professor of literature in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines.
Review Quotes: An important advance on the current state of Darwin criticism in American literary and cultural studies and, even more, a model for urgently needed work in such biocultural studies as animality and ecological thinking.--Laura Dassow Walls "author of The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America"