After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind

"Richardson [...] has brought together a group of eminent literary critics, including Gillian Beer and David Amigoni, and high-caliber historians of the emotions [...] with leading contemporary evolutionay biologists and psychologists [...] this cross-disciplinary conjunction does raise some pertinent and highly interesting questions." – Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester), in: Victorian Studies, Volume 58, No. 2, p. 354-356. "After Darwin not only offers a fascinatingly diverse collection of ways to approach Darwin’s influential concenption of the emotions in an evolutionary framework, with contributions from experts in literature, psychology, biology and history, it also provides a rich impetus for future investigations." – Andrew Ball, University of Manchester, in Social History of Medicine 28.1 (2015) pp. 206-207 “extremely interesting and well organized collection of 11 original essays. […] no summary of these essays will sufficiently indicate their richness. […] This book shows how Darwin’s scientific theory – the product itself of deep imaginative sympathy – helped to transform our understanding of both humans and animals.” – George Levine (Rutgers University), in The George Eliot Review 45 (2014), pp. 83-85 "The book […] really intrigued me. […] I hope that [this book] somehow [finds its] way into your hands in the not too distant future. [It] really [is] that good." – Mark Bekoff (University of Colorado), in Psychology Today: Animal Emotions 12 December 2013. For the full review see: PSYCHOLOGY TODAY/ANIMAL EMOTIONS "Guided by the assumption that science and culture are at all times reciprocal, After Darwin successfully bridges the gap between science and the humanities. It also typifies the rising interest in the emotions as a field of study in their own right and is furthermore representative of Harriet Ritvo’s observation of ten years ago that ‘animals have been edging towards the academic mainstream’ (p. 8). Some chapters integrate less well into the overall agenda of the volume, but they all offer a unique way of thinking about emotions, animals and human nature, at the centre of which we ultimately find Darwin himself." – Stephanie Eichberg in: The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp. 523 - 525.