Human Forms - The Novel in the Age of Evolution

Zusatztext "Duncan teases out, in intimate detail, the deep engagement between putatively Romantic and Victorian modes of thought and writing. This insight should give present studies of the novel renewed urgency. . . . Human Forms casts a bright light on the nineteenth-century novel not simply as an accessory to scientific thought, but as a powerful instrument for formulating questions about the status of the human as a social and biological problem" ---Devin Griffiths, Modern Philology Informationen zum Autor Ian Duncan Klappentext 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 this book, Ian Duncan reorients our understanding of the novel's formation during its cultural ascendancy, arguing that fiction produced new knowledge in a period characterized by the interplay between literary and scientific discourses--even as the two were separating into distinct domains. Zusammenfassung Duncan reorients readers' understanding of the novel's formation during its cultural ascendancy, arguing that fiction produced new knowledge in a period characterized by the interplay between literary and scientific discourses--even as the two were separating into distinct domains.ains.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ian Duncan
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 17.12.2024
• EAN: 9780691264783
• ISBN: 978-0-691-26478-3
• Pagine: 312
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; SCIENCE / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, History of Science, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers