Title Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction / Gillian Beer.

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Edition	2nd ed.
Description	1 online resource (xxxii, 277 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index.
Contents	'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world -- Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order -- Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The origin -- Darwinian myths -- George Eliot: Middlemarch -- George Eliot: 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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Natural history.
	Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Natural history.
	Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence.
	Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Natural history -- Influence.
	Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Natural history -- Influence.
	Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Knowledge -- Natural history -- Influence.
	Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. (OCoLC)fst00029136
	Eliot, George, 1819-1880. (OCoLC)fst00034497
	Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. (OCoLC)fst00034596
	Eliot, George.
	Hardy, Thomas.
	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Evolution (Biology) in literature.
	Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Evolution in literature.
	Nature in literature.
	Narration (Rhetoric)
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
	English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817
	Evolution (Biology) in literature. (OCoLC)fst00917331
	Evolution in literature. (OCoLC)fst00917337
	Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
	Literature and science. (OCoLC)fst01000093
	Narration (Rhetoric) (OCoLC)fst01032927
	Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
	Nature in literature. (OCoLC)fst01034680
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
	Darwinismus.
	Evolutionstheorie.
	Roman.
	Großbritannien.
	Englisch.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Beer, Gillian. Darwin's plots. 2nd ed. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 052178008X (DLC) 99051377 (OCoLC)42641739
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