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Darwin and the Novelists : patterns of science in Victorian fiction / George Levine

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: :Brijwasi Book Distributors | :H-87, Lalita Park laxmi Nagar Delhi 110092Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988.Description: x, 319 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780226475745
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.8093 LEV
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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