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Metaphors of change in the language of nineteenth-century fiction : Scott, Gaskell, and Kingsley
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Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press

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The "scientific movement" and Victorian literature
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ISBN: 0710803028 9780710803023 Year: 1982 Publisher: Sussex


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In pursuit of a scientific culture : science, art, and society in the Victorian Age
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ISBN: 0299122646 9780299122645 Year: 1989 Publisher: Madison (Wis.): University of Wisconsin press


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The divine in the commonplace : reverent natural history and the novel in Britain
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ISBN: 9781108631952 9781108492959 9781108730181 1108492959 1108730183 1108631959 1108660614 1316998444 Year: 2019 Volume: 116 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Realism has long been associated with the secular, but in early nineteenth-century England a realist genre existed that was highly theological: popular natural histories informed by natural theology. The Divine in the Commonplace explores the 'reverent empiricism' of English natural history and how it conceives observation and description as a kind of devotion or act of reverence. Focusing on the texts of popular natural historians, especially seashore naturalists, Amy M. King puts these in conversation with English provincial realist novelists including Austen, Gaskell, Eliot, and Trollope. She argues that the English provincial novel has a 'reverent form' as a result of its connection to the practices and representational strategies of natural history writing in this period, which was literary, empirical, and reverent. This book will appeal to students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature, science historians, and those interested in interdisciplinary connections between pre-Darwinian natural history, religion, and literature.


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George Eliot and Herbert Spencer: feminism, evolutionism, and the reconstruction of gender
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ISBN: 0691068410 9781400861668 1400861667 9780691068411 0691608075 9780691608075 0691636567 Year: 1991 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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This analysis of the writings of two major Victorian intellectuals examines the crucial place of gender in the larger Victorian debate about nature, religion, and evolutionary theory. Demonstrating the primacy of Herbert Spencer's influence on George Eliot's thought, Nancy Paxton discloses the continuous dialogue between this profoundly learned novelist and one of the most formidable and influential scientific authorities of her time. Using rarely cited first editions of Spencer's published works, Paxton reveals that Eliot and Spencer initially agreed in supporting several of the goals of early Victorian feminism when they met in 1851. Paxton surveys all of Spencer's writing to show when and why he repudiated his early feminism and demonstrates Eliot's determined resistance to the most conservative tendencies of evolutionary theory in her representation of female sexuality, motherhood, feminist ambition, and desire. In comparing Eliot's and Spencer's evolutionary "reconstruction of gender," the book draws on a wide variety of biographical, literary, and critical texts and on interdisciplinary scholarship about the relation between scientific and literary discourse in the nineteenth century. By thus reassessing Eliot's contribution to feminist thought, it presents a revolutionary reading of her novels which is informed by contemporary feminist criticism and the new historicism. "This is an important book because of the questions it raises, the issues it covers, and the illumination it brings to Eliot and Spencer and to crucial problems in the nineteenth century: Paxton looks at the ways scientific data get turned into arguments about the nature of women in society, about women and education, about women and sexuality. This work shows how truly current Eliot's novels are, no matter what their setting."--Barry Qualls, Rutgers UniversityOriginally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Darwin's plots: evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and nineteenth-century fiction
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ISBN: 9780521743617 9780521767699 9780511770401 9780511767890 0511767897 9780511769573 0511769571 0511770405 0521743613 0521767695 1107194512 110777912X 0511766505 0511768737 1282651447 0511765118 9786612651441 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here reissued in an updated edition to coincide with the anniversary of Darwin's birth and of the publication of The Origin of Species. Its focus on how writers, including George Eliot, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hardy, responded to Darwin's discoveries and to his innovations in scientific language continues to open up new approaches to Darwin's thought and to its effects in the culture of his contemporaries. This third edition includes an important new essay that investigates Darwin's concern with consciousness across all forms of organic life. It demonstrates how this fascination persisted throughout his career and affected his methods and discoveries. With an updated bibliography reflecting recent work in the field, this book will retain its place at the heart of Victorian studies.

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