The article first unfolds a brief relevant history of biology and the concepts of deep time (fossil and trace) before examining how Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness” plays on these themes to construct a fatalist eugenics carried out by a superhuman (yet still material) intelligence. This rearticulation was subsequently ramified by the trivialization of important complications to the Darwinian project prior to the so-called modern synthesis, namely, the downplaying of structuralist, mutationist, and epigenetic concerns. This undermining not only exposes Lovecraft's well-documented nativism and racism, but provides an exaggerated yet instructive example of how the neo-Darwinism of the latter half of the 19th and early part of the 20th century deployed eugenics by means of a politico-aesthetic rearticulation of the ambiguities of evolutionary theory.
In particular, Lovecraft's aesthetically charged 'controlled evolution' in his famous novella undermines the generative effects of deep time he sets out to emphasize. Lovecraft's deployment of deep time in "At the Mountains of Madness" as a historical artifact that bears the (at times conflicting) marks of evolutionary theory, social Darwinism, eugenics, and the various temporalities of biological life (recapitulation, degeneration). 'Tasha Alexander is one to watch - and read.This article treats H. Alexander keeps readers guessing until the very end' Publishers Weekly ' This engaging, witty mix of Victorian cozy and suspense thriller draws its dramatic spark from the endearingly headstrong heroine's growth in life and love. Emily becomes fascinated with this new image of her dead husband and immerses herself in his intellectual pursuits, studying Greek and spending time in the quiet corridors of the British Museum.īut there, amid priceless ancient statues, she uncovers a dark, dangerous secret involving stolen artifacts from the Greco-Roman galleries - and as she sets out to solve the crime she discovers even more surprises about the husband she never knew.
His journals reveal him to have been a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who, to her surprise, was deeply in love with his wife. Now, nearly two years later, she discovers that Philip was a far different man from the one she had married so cavalierly. So when her new husband dies on safari soon after the wedding, she feels little grief.
From New York Times bestselling author Tasha Alexander comes a stunning novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves stolen antiquities, betrayal, and murderįor Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount Ashton, was just an easy way to escape her stifling home life and overbearing mother.
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