George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Make-Believe of a BeginningCUP Archive, 29 Mar 1984 - 257 sayfa This study explores the ways in which George Eliot's involvement with contemporary scientific theory affected the evolution of her fiction. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Comte, Spencer, Lewes, Bain, Carpenter, von Hartmann and Bernard, Dr Shuttleworth shows how, as Eliot moved from Adam Bede to Daniel Deronda, her conception of a conservative, static and hierarchical model of society gave way to a more dynamic model of social and psychological life. |
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Kullanıcı Değerlendirmesi - Stevil2001 - LibraryThingAlong with Levine's Darwin and the Novelists and Beer's Darwin's Plots, this is one of the three foundational monographs about Victorian literature and science to be published in the 1980s. While ... Tam incelemeyi okuyun
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Natural history as social vision | 24 |
The shadowy armies of the unconscious | 51 |
A divided Eden | 81 |
The authority of history | 96 |
Social and sexual politics | 115 |
An experiment in time | 142 |
Fragmentation and organic union | 175 |
Conclusion | 201 |
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| Başlık | George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Make-Believe of a Beginning |
| Yazarlar | Professor in the Department of English Literature Sally Shuttleworth, Sally Shuttleworth |
| Baskı | yeni baskı |
| Yayıncı | CUP Archive, 1984 |
| ISBN | 0521257867, 9780521257862 |
| Uzunluk | 257 sayfa |
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