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Author:
Levine, George Lewis.
Title:
Darwin the writer / by George Levine.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
xvii, 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Darwin, Charles,--1809-1882--On the origin of species.
Evolution (Biology)--Authorship.
Natural selection--Authorship.
Darwin, Charles,--1809-1882--Influence.
Communication in science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Evolution (Biology) in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235) and index. "Select bibliography on Darwin, his theory, and its extrascientific connections": p. [223]-235.
Contents:
Darwin the writer -- Learning to see : Darwin's prophetic apprenticeship on the Beagle voyage -- The prose of On the origin of species -- Surprise and paradox : Darwin's artful legacy -- Darwinian mind and Wildean paradox -- Hardy's Woodlanders and the Darwinian grotesque -- Coda : the comic Darwin.
ISBN:
0199608431
9780199608430
OCLC:
(OCoLC)701811403
LCCN:
2011929288
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

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