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Author Beer, Gillian.

Title Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction / Gillian Beer.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Edition 2nd ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 277 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index.
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.
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Subject Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge and learning -- Natural history.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
Natural history.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Knowledge and learning -- Natural history.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Natural history -- Influence.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Natural history -- Influence.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Knowledge -- Natural history -- Influence.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Et les sciences naturelles.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Et les sciences naturelles.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence.
Eliot, George.
Hardy, Thomas.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Evolution (Biology) in literature.
Evolution (Biology) in literature.
Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and science.
Great Britain.
History.
Evolution in literature.
Evolution in literature.
Nature in literature.
Nature in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Beer, Gillian. Darwin's plots. 2nd ed. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 052178008X (DLC) 99051377 (OCoLC)42641739
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