Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Evolution of Literature -- The Law of Higgledy-pigglety: Charles Darwin's Inheritance, his Legacy and the Moral Order of Nature -- 'Our Racial Friends': Disease, Poverty and Social Darwinism, 1860-1940 -- From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps -- Charles Darwin's Centenary and the Politics and Poetics of Parenting: Inheritance, Variation, and the Aesthetic Legacy of Samuel Butler -- By An Evolutionist: Poetic Language in Chambers and Tennyson -- Victorian Evolutionary Criticism and the Pitfalls of Consilience -- H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and the End of Literature -- Mind in Modern Fiction: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives after Darwin -- E-Volutionary Fictions: The Darwinian Algorithm in Literature and Computer Games -- Value Judgements and Functional Roles: Carroll's Quarrel With Pinker -- The Book of Nature: Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Literature -- Men, Monkeys, Monsters and Evolution in Fiction from the Fin-de-siècle to the Present -- Zola and Darwin: A Reassessment -- On the Evolution of Humanity and the Oppressions of Darwinism in French Postwar Fiction -- Houellebecq, Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology -- '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 -- 'Live like a Man and not like a Monkey': Nietzsche's Philosophic Vitalism and Darwin's Theory of Evolution -- 'Creative Evolution': Bergson's Critique of Science and its Reception in the German-Speaking World -- Evolutionary Psychology as a Heuristic in Literary Studies -- Contributors -- Index.