Gillian Beer's landmark book demonstrates how Darwin overturned fundamental cultural assumptions in his narratives, how George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and other writers pursued and resisted their contradictory implications, and how the stories he produced about natural selection and the struggle for life now underpin our culture. This second edition incorporates a new preface by the author and a foreword by the distinguished American scholar George Levine.
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"The only problem with this book is deciding what to praise first. It draws on a breadth of knowledge in many fields, its literary readings are alert and original, it has a profound grasp of idea and form. It must be read by the scientist, the student of Victorian thought and art and the educated person in the street." Barbara Hardy, New Statesman
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This revised edition of Professor Dame Gillian Beer's highly acclaimed book incorporates a new preface by the author and foreword by the distinguished American scholar George Levine.'The only problem with this book is deciding what to praise first. It draws on a breadth of knowledge in many fields, its literary readings are alert and original, it has a profound grasp of idea and for m. It must be read by the scientist, the student of Victorian thought and art and the educated person in the street. ' Barbara Hardy, New Statesman
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Darwin's early autobiographical fragment, written in August 1838, just before he thoroughly stabilised the implications of his views on 'transmutation', describes his earliest memories. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plain signification, inextricable web, primitive tissue, single life span, hidden bond, entangled bank, single progenitor, evolutionary ideas Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, The Descent of Man, Principles of Geology, The Water Babies, Claude Bernard, Erasmus Darwin, Felix Holt, Sir Hugo, The Expression of the Emotions, British Association, Angel Clare, Egdon Heath, Francis Darwin, Grant Allen, Miss Tox, South America New!
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Darwin's early autobiographical fragment, written in August 1838, just before he thoroughly stabilised the implications of his views on 'transmutation', describes his earliest memories. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plain signification, inextricable web, primitive tissue, single life span, hidden bond, entangled bank, single progenitor, evolutionary ideas Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, The Descent of Man, Principles of Geology, The Water Babies, Claude Bernard, Erasmus Darwin, Felix Holt, Sir Hugo, The Expression of the Emotions, British Association, Angel Clare, Egdon Heath, Francis Darwin, Grant Allen, Miss Tox, South America New!
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- Natural Selection (Phoenix 60p paperbacks) by Charles Darwin on 18 pages
- The Water-Babies by Charles; Rowe, Susan; De Hosson, Ines Kingsley on 7 pages
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin on 4 pages
- The Return Of The Native (The Works of Thomas Hardy) by Thomas Hardy on 4 pages
- System of Logic by Johns Mill on 4 pages
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- Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism (Routledge Companion Encyclopedias) by Martin Coyle on 6 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by George Levine on 5 pages
- The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 8: 1830-1880: The Victorians by Philip Davis on 4 pages
- The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 8: 1830-1880: The Victorians by Philip Davis on 4 pages
- Darwinism, War and History: The Debate over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World War by Paul Crook on 4 pages
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