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Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction

Author: Gillian Beer
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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Named Person: George Eliot; Thomas Hardy; Charles Darwin; George Eliot; Thomas Hardy; Charles Darwin
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Gillian Beer
ISBN: 052178008X 9780521780087 0521783925 9780521783927
OCLC Number: 42641739
Description: xxxii, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world -- Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order -- Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The origin -- Darwinian myths -- George Eliot: Middlemarch -- George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life -- Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative -- Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels.
Responsibility: Gillian Beer.
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