| Description |
xxxii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / George Levine -- Pt. I. Darwin's language -- 1. 'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world -- 2. Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order -- Pt. II. Drawin's plots -- 3. Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The Origin -- 4. Darwinian myths -- I. Growth and its myths -- II. Growth and transformation -- III. Transformation, retrogression, extinction: Darwinian romance -- Pt. III. Responses: George Eliot and Thomas Hardy -- 5. George Eliot: Middlemarch -- I. The vital influence -- II. Structure and hypothesis -- III. The web of affinities -- 6. George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life -- 7. Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative -- 8. Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels |
| Summary |
This is a new edition of a title which examines Darwin's work in a literary/cultural context |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index |
| Notes |
Online version of the print title |
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System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser, and Adobe Acrobat reader |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Natural history
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Natural history
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence.
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Literature and science -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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English literature -- History and criticism -- 19th century.
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Evolution in literature.
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Evolution (Biology) in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Biological Evolution.
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Literature -- history.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Author |
ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
99051377 |
| ISBN |
052178008X hardback |
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0521783925 paperback |
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