Darwin's Plots : Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.

By: Beer, GillianContributor(s): Levine, GeorgeMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (313 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780511151156Subject(s): Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Influence | Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Natural history | English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Evolution in literature | Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Natural history | Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Nature in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Darwin's Plots : Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century FictionDDC classification: 823/.809356 LOC classification: PR878.E95 -- B43 2000ebOnline resources: Click to View
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- Introduction -- I THE REMNANT OF THE MYTHICAL -- II 'THE SECOND BLOW' -- III PROBLEMS OF KNOWLEDGE -- PART I Darwin's language -- CHAPTER 1 'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world -- CHAPTER 2 Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order -- PART II Darwin's plots -- CHAPTER 3 Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The Origin -- CHAPTER 4 Darwinian myths -- I GROWTH AND ITS MYTHS -- II GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION -- III TRANSFORMATION, RETROGRESSION, EXTINCTION: DARWINIAN ROMANCE -- The Great Forest -- PART III Responses: George Eliot and Thomas Hardy -- CHAPTER 5 George Eliot: Middlemarch -- I THE VITAL INFLUENCE -- II STRUCTURE AND HYPOTHESIS -- III THE WEB OF AFFINITIES -- CHAPTER 6 George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life -- CHAPTER 7 Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative -- CHAPTER 8 Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1: 'PLEASURE LIKE A TRAGEDY': IMAGINATION AND THE MATERIAL WORLD -- 2: FIT AND MISFITTING: ANTHROPOMORPHISM AND THE NATURAL ORDER -- 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 -- Select bibliography of primary works -- CHARLES DARWIN -- Works -- Edited notebooks and letters -- GEORGE ELIOT -- Index.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- Introduction -- I THE REMNANT OF THE MYTHICAL -- II 'THE SECOND BLOW' -- III PROBLEMS OF KNOWLEDGE -- PART I Darwin's language -- CHAPTER 1 'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world -- CHAPTER 2 Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order -- PART II Darwin's plots -- CHAPTER 3 Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The Origin -- CHAPTER 4 Darwinian myths -- I GROWTH AND ITS MYTHS -- II GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION -- III TRANSFORMATION, RETROGRESSION, EXTINCTION: DARWINIAN ROMANCE -- The Great Forest -- PART III Responses: George Eliot and Thomas Hardy -- CHAPTER 5 George Eliot: Middlemarch -- I THE VITAL INFLUENCE -- II STRUCTURE AND HYPOTHESIS -- III THE WEB OF AFFINITIES -- CHAPTER 6 George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life -- CHAPTER 7 Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative -- CHAPTER 8 Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1: 'PLEASURE LIKE A TRAGEDY': IMAGINATION AND THE MATERIAL WORLD -- 2: FIT AND MISFITTING: ANTHROPOMORPHISM AND THE NATURAL ORDER -- 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 -- Select bibliography of primary works -- CHARLES DARWIN -- Works -- Edited notebooks and letters -- GEORGE ELIOT -- Index.

New edition of highly acclaimed book examining Darwin's work in a literary/cultural context.

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