![]() A telling definition says posthumanism is “the belief in artificially enhanced evolution” (Terranova “Posthuman” 234). This deterministic logic works through Darwinism on their bodies just over a century later, Darwinist theories of biological advancement undergird posthumanist theories explaining our contemporary cultural obsession with body modifications. In George Du Maurier's Trilby (1894), Little Billee obsesses over his “fourness.” He and other characters struggle to escape the deterministic logic, here presented as two mathematical equations, that drives their destinies. Gender, Nation, and Posthumanism in Du Maurier’s Trilby By John Wiehl, Case Western Reserve University 2 + 2 = 4, also 2 x 2 = 4: that peculiarity was no reason why 4 should be conceited for what was 4 but a result, either way? Well, was like 4-just an inevitable result of circumstances over which he had no control-a mere product or sum and though he meant to make himself as big a 4 as he could (to cultivate his peculiar fourness), he could no longer feel the old conceit and self-complacency and they had been a joy, and it was hard to do without them. Issue 13.1 (Spring 2017) “She grew more English every day and that was a good thing”: ![]()
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