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Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
by: Gillian Beer (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (28 Feb. 2000)
Language: English
Paperback: 312 pages
ISBN-10: 0521783925
ISBN-13: 9780521783927
Book Description
Gillian Beer’s landmark book demonstrates how Darwin overtued 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.
