BIBLIOGRAPHY
No history of evolutionism in literature is known to exist.
For earlier treatments of this theme see René Wellek, “The
Theory of Literary History,” in Travaux du Cercle Linguis-
tique de Prague, 6 (1936), 173-91; idem, Theory of Literature,
with Austin Warren (New York, 1949); and idem, “The
Concept of Evolution in Literary History,” in For Roman
Jakobson (The Hague, 1956), pp. 653-61, reprinted in Con-
cepts of Criticism (New Haven, 1963), pp. 37-53. For evolu-
tionary concepts in historiography and philosophy see Ernst
Troeltsch, Der Historismus und seine Probleme (Tübingen,
1922); F. S. C. Northrop, “Evolution in its Relation to the
Philosophy of Nature and the Philosophy of Culture,” in
Evolutionary Thought in America, ed. Stow Persons (New
Haven, 1950), pp. 44-84; and Hans Meyerhoff, Time in
Literature (Berkeley, 1955).
RENÉ WELLEK
[See also Continuity;
Evolutionism; Historicism;
Literature;
Periodization in Literature.]
