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Darwin and the novelists : patterns of science in Victorian fiction
Title
Darwin and the novelists : patterns of science in Victorian fiction / George Levine.
ISBN
0674192850
9780674192850
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988.
Physical Description
x, 319 pages ; 25 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 6143: Number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" on title page verso indicates 1st printing. Dust jacket. Handwritten price on preliminary page: 27.50. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-309) and index.
Contents
Darwin among the novelists
Natural theology: Whewell and Darwin
Mansfield Park: observation rewarded
Darwin's revolution: from natural theology to natural selection
Dickens and Darwin
Little Dorrit and three kinds of science
The Darwinian world of Anthony Trollope
The perils of observation
From Scott to Darwin to Conrad: revolution not evolution.
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Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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