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Human forms : the novel in the age of evolution /
A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption of a stable, universal human nature...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Human Age; Chapter 1. The Form of Man; Conjecture, History, Science, Fiction; The Faculty of Perfection; The Formation of Humanity; The Paragon of Animals; Chapter 2. The Form of the Novel; Novelistic Revolution; Bildungsroman; Infinity or Totality; The Classical Form of the Historical Novel; The Dignity of the Human Race, the Glory of the World; Dark Unhappy Ones; Chapter 3. Lamarckian Historical Romance; Of Paris; Retrograde Evolution; Reading in the Dark; Le grotesque au revers du sublime; The Great Book of Mankind
- Chapter 4. Dickens: TransformistNo Humanity Here; The Poetry of Science; Dickens's Teratology; The Prose of the World; Visionary Dreariness; The Noise of the World; Chapter 5. George Eliot's Science Fiction; We Belated Historians; Knowledge and Its Languages; Species Consciousness; An Intellectual Passion; Involuntary, Palpitating Life; An Inherited Yearning; Shadows of the Coming Race; Notes; Bibliography; Index