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Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction by George Levine (Hardback, 1988)

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Darwin's theory thrust human life into time and nature and subjected it to naturalistic rather than spiritual or moral analysis. Insisting on gradual and regular-lawful-change, Darwinian thought nevertheless requires ackwledgment of chance and randomness for a full explanation of biological phemena. George Levine shows how these conceptions affected nineteenth-century velists--from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad--and draws illuminating contrasts with the pre-Darwinian vel and the perspective of natural theology.Levine demonstrates how even writers ostensibly uninterested in science absorbed and influenced its vision. A central chapter treats the almost aggressively unscientific Trollope as the most Darwinian of the velists, who worked out a gradualist realism that is representative of the mainstream of Victorian fiction and strikingly consonant with key Darwinian ideas. Levine's boldly conceived analysis of such authors as Scott and Dickens demonstrates the pervasiveness and power of this revolution in thought and sheds new light on Victorian realism.

Product Identifiers

PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674192850

ISBN-139780674192850

eBay Product ID (ePID)94550155

Product Key Features

Number of Pages336 Pages

Publication NameDarwin and the Novelists : Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1988

SubjectGeneral & Literary Fiction

TypeTextbook

AuthorGeorge Levine

Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Science

FormatHardback

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight20 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.7 in

Height230mm

Width150mm

Weight660g

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication01/07/1988

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Place of PublicationCambridge, Mass

Spine32mm

GenreGeneral & Literary Fiction

Country of PublicationUnited States