Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction
- 3rd ed.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009
- xxxiii, 294 p. ; ill., 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here reissued in an updated edition to coincide with the anniversary of Darwin's birth and of the publication of The Origin of Species. Its focus on how writers, including George Eliot, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hardy, responded to Darwin's discoveries and to his innovations in scientific language continues to open up new approaches to Darwin's thought and to its effects in the culture of his contemporaries. This third edition includes an importa.
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