Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction

by George Lewis Levine

Book Overview

Levine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists--from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. "Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose."--Frank M. Turner, Nineteenth-Century Literature. "Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of its subject."--Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226475743
• ISBN13: 9780226475745
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"