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Darwin's Plots : Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.
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 fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (313 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780511050008 0511050003 0511151152 9780511151156 1280162163 9781280162169 |