Darwin’s Plots Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin George Eliot and Nineteenth Century Fiction 3rd Edition by Gillian Beer ISBN 052174361 978-0521743617

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ISBN 10:052174361 

ISBN 13:978-0521743617

Author:Gillian Beer

Gillian Beer’s classic Darwin’s Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here reissued in an updated edition to coincide with the anniversary of Darwin’s birth and of the publication of The Origin of Species. Its focus on how writers, including George Eliot, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hardy, responded to Darwin’s discoveries and to his innovations in scientific language continues to open up new approaches to Darwin’s thought and to its effects in the culture of his contemporaries. This third edition includes an important new essay that investigates Darwin’s concern with consciousness across all forms of organic life. It demonstrates how this fascination persisted throughout his career and affected his methods and discoveries. With an updated bibliography reflecting recent work in the field, this book will retain its place at the heart of Victorian studies.

Table of contents: 

Foreword   

Preface to the first edition        

Preface to the second edition   

Preface to the third edition       

Introduction

The remnant of the mythical    

‘The second blow’

Problems of knowledge 

Darwin’s language

‘Pleasure like a tragedy’: imagination and the material world     

Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order      

Darwin’s plots

Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The Origin     

Darwinian myths 

Growth and its myths     

Growth and transformation      

Transformation, retrogression, extinction: Darwinian romance

Responses: George Eliot and Thomas Hardy

Middlemarch       

The vital influence

Structure and hypothesis

The web of affinities      

Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life

Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative 

Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy’s novels       

Darwin and the consciousness of others      

Select bibliography of primary works

Further reading related to Charles Darwin   

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