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UNINA9910955705503321 |
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Autore |
Beer Gillian |
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Titolo |
Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction / / Gillian Beer |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
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1-107-11995-2 |
0-511-01087-7 |
1-280-16216-3 |
0-511-11855-4 |
0-511-15115-2 |
0-511-32480-4 |
0-511-75510-4 |
0-511-05000-3 |
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Edizione |
[Second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxxii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Evolution (Biology) in literature |
Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Evolution in literature |
Nature in literature |
Narration (Rhetoric) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-272) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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'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. |
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Gillian Beer's landmark book demonstrates how Darwin overturned 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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910953219903321 |
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Autore |
Murray Geoffrey <1942-> |
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Titolo |
Green China : seeking ecological alternatives / / Geoffrey Murray and Ian G. Cook |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002 |
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1-905299-64-8 |
1-135-78779-4 |
1-135-78780-8 |
0-203-22065-X |
1-280-03179-4 |
0-203-29628-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Environmental policy - China |
Pollution - China |
China Environmental conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-244) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Green China; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; List of boxes; Preface; 1 China's environmental crisis: an overview; Progress at high cost; Consumerist contribution; Who should pay?; Sustainability theory; Legacy of Han grandeur; Achievements so far; Need for caution; 2 Ancient legacies; China's sorrow: the Yellow River and the river dragons; Han expansion: desertification and deforestation; Ecological balance; 3 Politics in command; Heavy industry; Four Pests Campaign; On Great Leaps and communes; Tree felling versus planting; 4 Market forces unleashed |
Pragmatism rulesOvermining of communal capital; Township |
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enterprises - rural driving force; Contribution of urban industries; Role of foreign investment; 5 Urban demographic and consumerist pressures; Growing urbanisation; Impact of the market economy; Enter the rural migrant; Population pressures; Consumerism and waste disposal worries; 6 The Sanxia dam; Justification: responding to threats; Critique: mega project dangers; Assessing the debates: alternative ways forward; 7 Moving the waters; Yellow River - continued source of sorrow; Water diversion; Not enough water; Competition for water |
What are the alternatives?Technical concerns; 8 Ecological tramplings; Atmospheric pollution; Better energy efficiency; Energy conservation; New and renewable energy; The threat of 'carmageddon'; Waste disposal; 9 Pollution on the periphery; Tibet: Land of Riches; Tibet: the Chinese case; Changing agricultural patterns; Tibet: the exiles' case; Prospects for reconciliation; Hong Kong struggles to clean up; Taiwan pays high price for growth; Analysis: common themes and contrasts; 10 Environmental policies; Environmental protection: government monopoly; The legal framework; Economic solutions |
Return of blue skiesInternational pilot projects; Individual initiatives; 11 Whither China? Alternative environmental futures; Rosy; Gloomy; Doomsday; Back to the future; Summing up; References; Bibliography; Index |
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Drawing on a wide range of Chinese and western sources, this book offers in-depth analysis of the complete range of environmental problems facing China today, from the historical, political, economic and cultural root causes, through the successful and unsuccessful efforts which have been made to find solutions, to possible future scenarios and strategies. |
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