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Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and nineteenth-century fiction / Gillian Beer.
Van Pelt Library PR878.E95 B43 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beer, Gillian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Evolution (Biology) in literature.
- Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and science.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Knowledge and learning--Natural history.
- Eliot, George.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
- Natural history.
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Knowledge and learning--Natural history.
- Hardy, Thomas.
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Influence.
- Darwin, Charles.
- Evolution in literature.
- Nature in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 294 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- Updated for the anniversary year, Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots continues to open up new approaches to Darwin's thinking and to its effects in the culture of his contemporaries. This third edition includes an updated bibliography and a new essay about his concern with consciousness across all forms of life.
- Contents:
- Part I Darwin's language 23
- 1 'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world 25
- 2 Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order 44
- Part II Darwin's plots 71
- 3 Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The Origin 73
- 4 Darwinian myths 97
- I Growth and its myths 97
- II Growth and transformation 99
- III Transformation, retrogression, extinction: Darwinian romance 114
- Part III Responses: George Eliot and Thomas Hardy 137
- 5 Middlemarch / George Eliot 139
- I The vital influence 139
- II Structure and hypothesis 148
- III The web of affinities 156
- 6 Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life / George Eliot 169
- 7 Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative 196
- 8 Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels 220
- 9 Darwin and the consciousness of others 242.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521743617
- 0521743613
- 9780521767699
- 0521767695
- OCLC:
- 305158697
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