Professor Dame Gillian Beer was President of Clare Hall, 1994-2001, and King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1994-2002. Her works include Darwin's Plots (1983; third edition, 2009), which related the form of Victorian novels to Darwinist thinking.
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Foreword George Levine Preface to second edition Introduction Part I. Darwin's Language: 1. 'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world 2. Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order Part II. Darwin's Plots: 3. Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The Origin 4. Darwinian myths 5. George Eliot: Middlemarch 6. George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life 7. Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative 8. Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels 9. Darwin and the consciousness of others Select bibliography of primary works.
Foreword George Levine Preface to second edition Introduction Part I. Darwin's Language: 1. âPleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world 2. Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order Part II. Darwin's Plots: 3. Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The Origin 4. Darwinian myths 5. George Eliot: Middlemarch 6. George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life 7. Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative 8. Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels 9. Darwin and the consciousness of others Select bibliography of primary works.
Foreword George Levine Preface to second edition Introduction Part I. Darwin's Language: 1. 'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world 2. Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order Part II. Darwin's Plots: 3. Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The Origin 4. Darwinian myths 5. George Eliot: Middlemarch 6. George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life 7. Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative 8. Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels 9. Darwin and the consciousness of others Select bibliography of primary works.
Foreword George Levine Preface to second edition Introduction Part I. Darwin's Language: 1. âPleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world 2. Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order Part II. Darwin's Plots: 3. Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The Origin 4. Darwinian myths 5. George Eliot: Middlemarch 6. George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life 7. Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative 8. Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels 9. Darwin and the consciousness of others Select bibliography of primary works.
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'Gillian Beer's superb study [is] a work of criticism that takes its modest place among the other 'cloudy triumphs' of English genius.' Michael Neve, Sunday Times
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