George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science
The Make-Believe of a Beginning
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- Author: Sally Shuttleworth
- Date Published: March 1987
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521335843
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This study explores the ways in which George Eliot's involvement with contemporary scientific theory affected the evolution of her fiction. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Comte, Spencer, Lewes, Bain, Carpenter, von Hartmann and Bernard, Dr Shuttleworth shows how, as Eliot moved from Adam Bede to Daniel Deronda, her conception of a conservative, static and hierarchical model of society gave way to a more dynamic model of social and psychological life.
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- Date Published: March 1987
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521335843
- length: 272 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.56kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Science and social thought: the rise of organic theory
2. Adam Bede: natural history as social vision
3. The Mill on the Floss: the shadowy armies of the unconscious
4. Silas Marner: a divided Eden
5. Romola: the authority of history
6. Felix Holt: social and sexual politics
7. Middlemarch: an experiment in time
8. Daniel Deronda: fragmentation and organic union
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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