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Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction
George Levine
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| #4210910 in Books | Harvard University Press | 1988-09-07 | 1988-10-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.58 x1.26 x6.48l,1.46 | File type: PDF | 336 pages | ||13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| Even unread theories permeate fiction.|By Mary E. Sibley|The book functions as both a wonderful review of Victorian period novels and a review of Darwinism for the general reader. Science is part of cultural formation. Even unread theories permeate fiction because others in the milieu talk about the theories and talk about issues forming the foundation for scientific theorie|About the Author|George Levine is Kenneth Burke Professor of Literature and Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University. He has written on science and the history of science as well as on literature.
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 acknowledgment of chance and randomness for a full explanation of biological phenomena. George Levine shows how these conceptions affected nineteenth–century novelists―from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad―and draws illuminating ...
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