Sally Shuttleworth

George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science

The Make-Believe of a Beginning

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study explores the ways in which George Eliot's involvement with contemporary scientific theory affected the evolution of her fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780521335843
• ISBN-10: 0521335841
• Artikelnr.: 27006932

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Science and social thought: the rise of organic theory
2. Adam Bede: natural history as social vision
3. The Mill on the Floss: the shadowy armies of the unconscious
4. Silas Marner: a divided Eden
5. Romola: the authority of history
6. Felix Holt: social and sexual politics
7. Middlemarch: an experiment in time
8. Daniel Deronda: fragmentation and organic union
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.