Darwin and the novelists : patterns of science in Victorian fiction

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The Victorian novel clearly joins with science in the pervasive secularizing of nature and society and in the exploration of the consequences of secularization that characterized mid-Victorian England. p. viii.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levine, George, 1931-
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Edition:University of Chicago Press ed.
Subjects:
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Influence.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882.
Darwin, Charles, > (1809-1882) > Influence.
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Evolution (Biology) in literature.
Science in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sciences dans la littérature.
English fiction.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature and science.
Romans.
Darwinisme.
Engels.
Literatura Inglesa (Historia E Critica)
Darwinisme > Dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siècle.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of 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.

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