Acknowledgements Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James: Introduction: The Evolution of Literature David Knight: The Law of Higgledy-pigglety: Charles Darwin’s Inheritance, his Legacy and the Moral Order of Nature Paul Weindling: ‘Our Racial Friends’: Disease, Poverty and Social Darwinism, 1860-1940 Joseph Emonds: From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps David Amigoni: Charles Darwin’s Centenary and the Politics and Poetics of Parenting: Inheritance, Variation, and the Aesthetic Legacy of Samuel Butler Anna Barton: By An Evolutionist: Poetic Language in Chambers and Tennyson John Holmes: Victorian Evolutionary Criticism and the Pitfalls of Consilience Simon J. James: H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the End of Literature Patricia Waugh: Mind in Modern Fiction: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives after Darwin Alistair Brown: E-Volutionary Fictions: The Darwinian Algorithm in Literature and Computer Games Jon Adams: Value Judgements and Functional Roles: Carroll’s Quarrel With Pinker Wendy Wheeler: The Book of Nature: Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Literature Christopher Lloyd: Men, Monkeys, Monsters and Evolution in Fiction from the Fin-de-siècle to the Present David Baguley: Zola and Darwin: A Reassessment Louise Lyle: On the Evolution of Humanity and the Oppressions of Darwinism in French Postwar Fiction Douglas Morrey: Houellebecq, Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology Nicholas Saul: ‘Once in Human Nature, a Thing Cannot be Driven Out’: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Wilhelm Jensen’s The Legacy of Blood (1869). An Early Response to Darwin John A. McCarthy: ‘Live like a Man and not like a Monkey’: Nietzsche’s Philosophic Vitalism and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution David Midgley: ‘Creative Evolution’: Bergson’s Critique of Science and its Reception in the German-Speaking World Katja Mellmann: Evolutionary Psychology as a Heuristic in Literary Studies Contributors Index