Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century FictionCambridge University Press, 28/02/2000 - 277 من الصفحات This revised edition of Professor Dame Gillian Beer's highly acclaimed book incorporates a new preface by the author and foreword by the distinguished American scholar George Levine.'The only problem with this book is deciding what to praise first. It draws on a breadth of knowledge in many fields, its literary readings are alert and original, it has a profound grasp of idea and for m. It must be read by the scientist, the student of Victorian thought and art and the educated person in the street. ' Barbara Hardy, New Statesman |
المحتوى
Introduction | 1 |
II The second blow | 8 |
III Problems of knowledge | 14 |
Darwins language | 23 |
Pleasure like a tragedy imagination and the material world | 25 |
Fit and misfitting anthropomorphism and the natural order | 44 |
Darwins plots | 71 |
Analogy metaphor and narrative in The Origin | 73 |
Responses George Eliot and Thomas Hardy | 137 |
George Eliot Middlemarch | 139 |
II Structure and hypothesis | 148 |
III The web of affinities | 156 |
George Eliot Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life | 169 |
Descent and sexual selection women in narrative | 196 |
Finding a scale for the human plot and writing in Hardys novels | 220 |
Notes | 242 |
Darwinian myths | 97 |
I Growth and its myths | 99 |
Darwinian romance | 114 |
Select bibliography of primary works | 267 |
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