TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levine, George
AU  - Levine, George
TI  - Darwin and the Novelists : : patterns of science in Victorian fiction
SN  - 9780226475745
U1  - 823.8093 LEV 
PY  - 1988///
CY  - 	Cambridge, Mass. 
PB  - : Harvard University Press
KW  - English Literatures
KW  -  Old English literatures
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Influence
KW  - Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882
KW  - Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Literature and science
KW  - Romans
KW  - Engels
KW  - Sciences dans la litteerature
N1  - Darwin among the novelists --
Natural theology: Whewell and Darwin --
Mansfield Park: observation rewarded --
Darwin's revolution: from natural theology to natural selection --
Dickens and Darwin --
Little Dorrit and three kinds of science --
The Darwinian world of Anthony Trollope --
The perils of observation --
From Scott to Darwin to Conrad: revolution not evolution
N2  - Insisting on gradual and regular-lawful-change, Darwinian thought nevertheless requires acknowledgment of chance and randomness for a full explanation of biological phenomena. Levine shows how these conceptions affected 19th-century novelists-from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad-and draws contrasts with the pre-Darwinian novel.
ER  -