Darwin and the Novelists

Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction

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George Levine

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

September 7th, 1988

Author

George Levine

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

None

Pages

336

Dimensions

150x230x32

ISBN-13

9780674192850

Product ID

14662380

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