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George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Make-Believe of a Beginning

George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Make-Believe of a Beginning

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Series: Landmarks of World Literature (Paperback)

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521335841
ISBN13: 9780521335843
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Mar 12 1987
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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