Darwin's Plots : Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.

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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.
Temas:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Evolution (Biology) in literature.
Evolution in literature.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Nature in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Évolution dans la littérature.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Narration.
Nature dans la littérature.
English fiction
Evolution (Biology) in literature
Evolution in literature
Literature and science
Nature in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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