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...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2000.
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Edición: | 2nd ed |
Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3852630x*spi |
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: | xxxii, 277 p. : il |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 267-272) e índice. |
ISBN: | 9780511010873 9780511034756 9780511118555 9780521783927 9780521780087 9780511755101 9786610162161 |