Title Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction / Gillian Beer

Edition 2nd ed Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 277 pages) : illustrations Contents 'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world -- Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order -- Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The origin -- Darwinian myths -- George Eliot: Middlemarch -- George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life -- Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative -- Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels Summary Gillian Beer's landmark book demonstrates how Darwin overturned fundamental cultural assumptions in his narratives, how George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and other writers pursued and resisted their contradictory implications, and how the stories he produced about natural selection and the struggle for life now underpin our culture. This second edition of Darwin's Plots incorporates a new preface by the author and a foreword by the distinguished American scholar George Levine Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Natural history Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Natural history Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence SUBJECT Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 fast Eliot, George, 1819-1880 fast Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 fast Eliot, George. swd Hardy, Thomas. swd Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Evolution (Biology) in literature. Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Evolution in literature. Nature in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Evolution (Biology) English fiction -- 19th century -- Themes, motives Biological Evolution Literature -- history evolution. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Evolution (Biology) English fiction -- Themes, motives English fiction Evolution (Biology) in literature Evolution in literature Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Literature and science Narration (Rhetoric) Natural history Nature in literature Darwinismus Evolutionstheorie Roman Great Britain Großbritannien Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0511010877 9780511010873 051103475X 9780511034756 0511118554 9780511118555 9780521783927 0521783925 9780521780087 052178008X 9780511755101 0511755104 9786610162161 6610162166 1107119952 9781107119956 1280162163 9781280162169 0511151152 9780511151156 0511324804 9780511324802 0511050003 9780511050008

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