At the turn of the eighteenth century, selfhood was defined by the idea of a tabula rasa to be imprinted in the course of an individual s life. By the middle of the nineteenth century, however, the individual had become defined as determined by heredity already from birth. Examining novels, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and collections of anatomical monstrosities, Origins Matter delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications of emerging notions of heredity for the conceptualization of selfhood.
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