Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction

Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction Levine George Wydawca: Harvard University Press Data wydania: 1988 ISBN: 9780674192850 Liczba stron: 336 Format: 235 x 152 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: Insisting on gradual and regular-lawful-change, Darwinian thought nevertheless requires acknowledgment of chance and randomness for a full explanation of biological phenomena. Levine shows how these conceptions affected 19th-century novelists-from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad-and draws contrasts with the pre-Darwinian novel.