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: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Knowledge > Natural history.
Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928 > Knowledge > Natural history.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Influence.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Et les sciences naturelles.
Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928 > Et les sciences naturelles.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880
Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928
Eliot, George.
Hardy, Thomas.
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Evolution (Biology) in literature.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Evolution in literature.
Nature in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Evolution (Biology)
English fiction > 19th century > Themes, motives.
Biological Evolution
Literature > history
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Thèmes, motifs.
Évolution dans la littérature.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Nature dans la littérature.
Narration.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Évolution (Biologie)
evolution.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction > Themes, motives
English fiction
Evolution (Biology) in literature
Evolution in literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature and science
Natural history
Nature in literature
Darwinismus
Evolutionstheorie
Roman
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world
  • Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order
  • Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The origin
  • Darwinian myths
  • George Eliot: Middlemarch
  • George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life
  • Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative
  • Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels.

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