Jane Austen & Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists

by Peter W. Graham

Book Overview

Are Austen and Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century? Peter W. Graham brings these two icons of nineteenth-century British culture into intellectual conversation by situating both writers in the empirical tradition. Employing trenchant analysis informed by a wealth of historical and biographical detail and recent work by historians of science, Graham's comparative study gives us a new entree into Austen's and Darwin's writings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138265357
• ISBN13: 9781138265356
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"