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Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and nineteenth-century fiction /
This text demonstrates how Darwin overturned fundamental cultural assumptions in his narratives, how George Eliot and other writers pursued and resisted their contradictory implications in their writings.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by George Levine
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Introduction
- '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
- Darwin and the consciousness of others.