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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: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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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 of Darwin's Plots 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 (xxxii, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511010877 9780511010873 051103475X 9780511034756 0511118554 9780511118555 9780521783927 0521783925 9780521780087 052178008X 9780511755101 0511755104 9786610162161 6610162166 1107119952 9781107119956 1280162163 9781280162169 0511151152 9780511151156 0511324804 9780511324802 0511050003 9780511050008 |