TY - BOOK AU - Beer,Gillian AU - Levine,George TI - Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction SN - 9780511151156 AV - PR878.E95 -- B43 2000eb U1 - 823/.809356 PY - 2000/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Influence KW - Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Natural history KW - English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism KW - Evolution in literature KW - Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Natural history KW - Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century KW - Nature in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - New edition of highly acclaimed book examining Darwin's work in a literary/cultural context UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=144671 ER -