Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

ISBN: 9780521783927 出版年：2000 页码：313 Gillian Beer Cambridge University Press

Foreword George Levine Preface to second edition Introduction Part I. Darwin's Language: 1. 'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world 2. Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order Part II. Darwin's Plots: 3. Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The Origin 4. Darwinian myths 5. George Eliot: Middlemarch 6. George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life 7. Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative 8. Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels 9. Darwin and the consciousness of others Select bibliography of primary works.