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Record Nr.

UNINA9910682569203321

Autore

Moore Ben

Titolo

Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895 / / by Ben Moore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031266409

9783031266393

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (107 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, , 2634-6443

Disciplina

823.8093561

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Ecocriticism

Medicine and the humanities

Science - History

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Medical Humanities

History of Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Human Tissue -- Chapter 1 Becoming-evolutionary?: Animal Transformations in Alton Locke -- Chapter 2 Allegorical Realism and the Figure of the Human in The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch -- Chapter 3 Zola, Moore, Lee and the Vivisectional Novel -- Conclusion: The Primitive Tissue of Realism.

Sommario/riassunto

This Pivot engages with current debates about anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene to propose a reappraisal of the realist novel in the second half of the nineteenth century. Through three case studies, it argues for ‘human tissue’ as a conceptual tool for reading that brings together biology, literature and questions of layering. This new approach is shown to be especially salient to the Victorian period, when the application of ‘tissue’ to biology first emerges. The book is distinctive in bringing together theoretical concerns around realism and the Anthropocene – two major topics in literary criticism – and presenting a new methodology to approach this conjunction, demonstrated through original readings of Charles Kingsley, George



Eliot, and Emile Zola and two English-language writers he influenced (George Moore and Vernon Lee).