Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian FictionUniversity of Chicago Press, 1991 - 319 Levine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists—from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. "Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose."—Frank M. Turner, Nineteenth-Century Literature. "Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of its subject."—Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania |
Spis treści
1 Darwin amond the Novelists | 1 |
Whewell and Darwin | 24 |
Observation Rewarded | 56 |
From Natural Theology to Natural Selecion | 84 |
5 Dickens and Darwin | 119 |
6 Little Dorrit and Three Kinds of Science | 153 |
7 The Darwinian World of Anthony Trollope | 177 |
8 The Perils of Observation | 210 |
Revolution Not Evolution | 238 |
Notes | 275 |
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Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction George Levine Widok fragmentu - 1988 |
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