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Darwin's Plots
Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Taschenbuch von Gillian Beer
Sprache: Englisch

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Updated for the anniversary year, Gillian BeerâEUR(TM)s classic DarwinâEUR(TM)s Plots continues to open up new approaches to DarwinâEUR(TM)s thinking and to its effects in the culture of his contemporaries. This third edition includes an updated bibliography and a new essay about his concern with consciousness across all forms of life.
Updated for the anniversary year, Gillian BeerâEUR(TM)s classic DarwinâEUR(TM)s Plots continues to open up new approaches to DarwinâEUR(TM)s thinking and to its effects in the culture of his contemporaries. This third edition includes an updated bibliography and a new essay about his concern with consciousness across all forms of life.
Über den Autor
Professor Dame Gillian Beer was President of Clare Hall, 1994-2001, and King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1994-2002. Her works include Darwin's Plots (1983; third edition, 2009), which related the form of Victorian novels to Darwinist thinking.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword George Levine; Preface to second edition; Introduction; Part I. Darwin's Language: 1. 'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world; 2. Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order; Part II. Darwin's Plots: 3. Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The Origin; 4. Darwinian myths; 5. George Eliot: Middlemarch; 6. George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life; 7. Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative; 8. Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels; 9. Darwin and the consciousness of others; Select bibliography of primary works.
Details
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780521743617
ISBN-10: 0521743613
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Beer, Gillian
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Gillian Beer
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.10.2012
Gewicht: 0,48 kg
Artikel-ID: 101645071
Über den Autor
Professor Dame Gillian Beer was President of Clare Hall, 1994-2001, and King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1994-2002. Her works include Darwin's Plots (1983; third edition, 2009), which related the form of Victorian novels to Darwinist thinking.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword George Levine; Preface to second edition; Introduction; Part I. Darwin's Language: 1. 'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world; 2. Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order; Part II. Darwin's Plots: 3. Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The Origin; 4. Darwinian myths; 5. George Eliot: Middlemarch; 6. George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life; 7. Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative; 8. Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels; 9. Darwin and the consciousness of others; Select bibliography of primary works.
Details
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780521743617
ISBN-10: 0521743613
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Beer, Gillian
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Gillian Beer
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.10.2012
Gewicht: 0,48 kg
Artikel-ID: 101645071
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