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Author Levine, George, 1931-
Title Darwin the writer / by George Levine.
Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Description xvii, 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography 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.
Subject Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. On the origin of species.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Authorship.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Language.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Literary art.
Communication in science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Evolution (Biology) in literature.
ISBN 9780199608430 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
0199608431 (hbk. : acid-free paper)


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