Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution

by Ian Duncan

A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary science

The 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption of a stable, universal human nature to one that changes over time. In Human Forms, Ian Duncan reorients our understanding of the novel's formation during its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691175071
• ISBN13: 9780691175072
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"