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Darwin's Plots : = Evolutionary Narr...
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Beer, Gillian.
Darwin's Plots : = Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.
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Darwin's Plots :/
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Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.
Author:
Beer, Gillian.
Published:
Cambridge :Cambridge University Press, : 2000.,
Description:
313 p.
Subject:
Eliot, George.; English fiction - 19th century - History and criti. -
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ISBN:
9780511755101 (electronic bk.)
Darwin's Plots : = Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.
Beer, Gillian.
Darwin's Plots :
Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2000. - 313 p.
Preliminaries; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 ‘Pleasure like a tragedy’: imagination and the material world; CHAPTER 2 Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order; CHAPTER 3 Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The Origin; CHAPTER 4 Darwinian myths; CHAPTER 5 George Eliot: Middlemarch; CHAPTER 6 George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life; CHAPTER 7 Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative; CHAPTER 8 Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy’s novels; Notes
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 incorporates a new preface by the author and a foreword by the distinguished American scholar George Levine.
Electronic reproduction.
Available via World Wide Web.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN: 9780511755101 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:
276012
Eliot, George.; English fiction - 19th century - History and criti.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:
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Electronic books.
LC Class. No.: PR878.E95 B43 2000eb
Dewey Class. No.: 823.809
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