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 |
Publicado: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2000.
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Edición: | 2nd ed |
Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42035442*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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Notas: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (xxxii, 277 p.) |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780511755101 |