RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Foretelling darwinism, revising race: Poe's scientific discourse in "The murders in the rue Morgue"
A1 Miquel-Baldellou, Marta
K1 Poe, Edgar Allan
AB Having recently celebrated the bicentenary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth, his tales still remainan invaluable source of ongoing interpretation. The first tale that conforms his detectivetrilogy, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, has been analysed from multiple perpectives,especially taking into consideration the discourse of race as a main focus of attention.Nonetheless, detective Auguste Dupin’s references to Georges Cuvier, an important preDarwinianFrench naturalist and zoologist, have often been unnoticed. This article aimsat identifying pre-Darwinian concepts about selection and evolution in Poe’s tale so as tofacilitate readings of the tale in relation to Darwinism and evolutionary theories
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 0211-5913
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/2500
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 23-nov-2024