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Darwin and the Novelists - Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction (Hardcover)
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Darwin and the Novelists - Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction (Hardcover)
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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 contrasts with the pre-Darwinian novel and the
perspective of natural theology. Levine demonstrates how even
writers ostensibly uninterested in science absorbed and influenced
its vision. A central chapter treats the almost aggressively
unscientific Trollope as the most Darwinian of the novelists, who
worked out a gradualist realism that is representative of the
mainstream of Victorian fiction and strikingly consonant with key
Darwinian ideas. Levine's boldly conceived analysis of such authors
as Scott and Dickens demonstrates the pervasiveness and power of
this revolution in thought and sheds new light on Victorian
realism.
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