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Alice in space : the sideways Victorian world of Lewis Carroll / / Gillian Beer
| Alice in space : the sideways Victorian world of Lewis Carroll / / Gillian Beer |
| Autore | Beer Gillian |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, IL : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 823.8 |
| Collana | Carpenter lectures |
| Soggetto topico | Fantasy fiction, English - Criticism and interpretation |
| Soggetto non controllato | victorian literature, fantasy, satire, intellectual history, childrens, science, mathematics, parody, punch, evolution, authority, social change, revolution, literary criticism, manners, etiquette, morality, childhood, curiosity, knowledge, invention, games, play, puns, humor, identity, doubt, names, justice, power, control, growing, expansion, doubling, 1860s, spaces, place, subversive, absurd, linguistics, imagination, darwin, huxley, max muller, bronte, john stuart mill |
| ISBN | 0-226-40479-X |
| Classificazione | HL 2395 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1.Alice in time -- 2. “the faculty of invention”: games, play, and maths -- 3. Puns, punch, and parody -- 4. the dialogues of Alice: pretending to be two people -- 5. Are you animal — vegetable — or mineral?: Alice’s identity -- 6. “must a name mean something” Alice asked doubtfully -- 7. Dreaming and justice -- 8. Growing and eating -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136126803321 |
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| Chicago, IL : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] | ||
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Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction / / Gillian Beer [[electronic resource]]
| Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction / / Gillian Beer [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Beer Gillian |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 823/.809356 |
| Soggetto topico |
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) |
| ISBN |
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 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | '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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455635703321 |
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Beer Gillian
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction / / Gillian Beer [[electronic resource]]
| Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction / / Gillian Beer [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Beer Gillian |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 823/.809356 |
| Soggetto topico |
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) |
| ISBN |
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 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | '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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780246403321 |
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Beer Gillian
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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