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Gillian Beer's landmark book demonstrates how Darwin overturned fundamental cultural assumptions in his narratives, how George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and other writers pursued and resisted their contradictory implications, and how the stories he produced about natural selection and the struggle for life now underpin our culture. This second edition incorporates a new preface by the author and a foreword by the distinguished American scholar George Levine.
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This revised edition of Professor Dame Gillian Beer's highly acclaimed book incorporates a new preface by the author and foreword by the distinguished American scholar George Levine.'The only problem with this book is deciding what to praise first. It draws on a breadth of knowledge in many fields, its literary readings are alert and original, it has a profound grasp of idea and for m. It must be read by the scientist, the student of Victorian thought and art and the educated person in the street. ' Barbara Hardy, New Statesman
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Gillian Beer is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0521783925
- ISBN 13 9780521783927
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages312
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