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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beer, Gillian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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