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The early history of embodied cognition 1740-1920 : the Lebenskraft-debate and radical reality in German science, music, and literature (2016)
Book
McCarthy, J., Hilger, S., Sullivan, H., & Saul, N. (Eds.). (2016). The early history of embodied cognition 1740-1920 : the Lebenskraft-debate and radical reality in German science, music, and literature. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004309036

This pioneering book evaluates the early history of embodied cognition. It explores for the first time the life-force (Lebenskraft) debate in Germany, which was manifest in philosophical reflection, medical treatise, scientific experimentation, theor... Read More about The early history of embodied cognition 1740-1920 : the Lebenskraft-debate and radical reality in German science, music, and literature.

Fitness, Nerves, the Degenerate Body, and Identity: Radical Reality and Modernity in Max Nordaus Aesthetics and Fiction (2016)
Book Chapter
Saul, N. (2016). Fitness, Nerves, the Degenerate Body, and Identity: Radical Reality and Modernity in Max Nordaus Aesthetics and Fiction. In J. McCarthy, S. Hilger, H. Sullivan, & N. Saul (Eds.), The early history of embodied cognition 1740-1920 : the Lebenskraft-debate and radical reality in German science, music, and literature (211-223). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004309036_010

This paper argues that Max Nordau’s monistic Darwinism and concept of the subject as embodied place him in the tradition of radical realism. In this context, Nordau’s literary works have hitherto been regarded as heteronomous productions, mere allego... Read More about Fitness, Nerves, the Degenerate Body, and Identity: Radical Reality and Modernity in Max Nordaus Aesthetics and Fiction.

‘Vorgänger Darwins’ or ‘Nachfolger Goethes’? Wilhelm Bölsche on Evolutionism in Goethe and Novalis or, Literature and the Two Cultures Then and Now (2015)
Journal Article
Saul, N. (2015). ‘Vorgänger Darwins’ or ‘Nachfolger Goethes’? Wilhelm Bölsche on Evolutionism in Goethe and Novalis or, Literature and the Two Cultures Then and Now. Publications of the English Goethe Society, 84(1), 76-91. https://doi.org/10.1179/0959368314z.00000000049

This essay is the first to consider Wilhelm Bölsche’s activity as editor of, and commentator on, Novalis’s work. It does so on the one hand by contrasting Bölsche’s image of Novalis with his image of Goethe, and on the other by setting that in the co... Read More about ‘Vorgänger Darwins’ or ‘Nachfolger Goethes’? Wilhelm Bölsche on Evolutionism in Goethe and Novalis or, Literature and the Two Cultures Then and Now.

‘…Das normale Weib gehört der Zukunft.’ Evolutionism and the New Woman in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Frieda von Bülow and Lou Andreas-Salomé (2014)
Journal Article
Saul, N. (2014). ‘…Das normale Weib gehört der Zukunft.’ Evolutionism and the New Woman in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Frieda von Bülow and Lou Andreas-Salomé. German Life and Letters, 67(4), 555-573. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12060

Whilst the treatment of Darwinian and other concepts of evolution in literary theory and writing by men around 1900 has recently received attention, little has been written on their influence over women writers and their theorisation of gender at thi... Read More about ‘…Das normale Weib gehört der Zukunft.’ Evolutionism and the New Woman in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Frieda von Bülow and Lou Andreas-Salomé.

Darwin in German Literary Culture 1890-1914 (2014)
Book Chapter
Saul, N. (2014). Darwin in German Literary Culture 1890-1914. In T. F. Glick, & E. Shaffer (Eds.), The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe (46-77). Bloomsbury

Introduction (2013)
Book Chapter
Göttsche, D., & Saul, N. (2013). Introduction. In D. Göttsche, & N. Saul (Eds.), Realism and Romanticism in German Literatur (9-30). Aisthesis