Darwin and the novelists patterns of science in Victorian fiction

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Title:

Darwin and the novelists patterns of science in Victorian fiction

Author:

Levine, George (1931-....)

ISBN:

9780226475745

Personal Author:

Levine, George (1931-....)

Publication Information:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago press, 1991.

Physical Description:

1 vol. (X-319 p. : couv. ill. ; 24 cm.

Personal Subject:

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)-Influence.

Subject Term:

English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Evolution in literature.

Science in literature.

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Levine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists--from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. "Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose."--Frank M. Turner, Nineteenth-Century Literature . "Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of its subject."--Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania

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