03295nam 22007452 450 991045563570332120151005020622.01-107-11995-20-511-01087-71-280-16216-30-511-11855-40-511-15115-20-511-32480-40-511-75510-40-511-05000-3(CKB)111087027187822(EBL)144671(OCoLC)475870774(SSID)ssj0000134941(PQKBManifestationID)11954080(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000134941(PQKBWorkID)10056850(PQKB)11193957(UkCbUP)CR9780511755101(MiAaPQ)EBC144671(Au-PeEL)EBL144671(CaPaEBR)ebr2000909(CaONFJC)MIL16216(EXLCZ)9911108702718782220100422d2000|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDarwin's plots evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction /Gillian Beer[electronic resource]Second edition.Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2000.1 online resource (xxxii, 277 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-78392-5 0-521-78008-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-272) and index.'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.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 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.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismEvolution (Biology) in literatureLiterature and scienceGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEvolution in literatureNature in literatureNarration (Rhetoric)English fictionHistory and criticism.Evolution (Biology) in literature.Literature and scienceHistoryEvolution in literature.Nature in literature.Narration (Rhetoric)823/.809356Beer Gillian131285UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910455635703321Darwins plots179015UNINA