Human forms : the novel in the age of evolution /
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Human Age; Chapter 1. The Form of Man; Conjecture, History, Science, Fiction; The Faculty of Perfection; The Formation of Humanity; The Paragon of Animals; Chapter 2. The Form of the Novel; Novelistic Revolution; Bildungsroman; Infinity or Totality; The Classical Form of the Historical Novel; The Dignity of the Human Race, the Glory of the World; Dark Unhappy Ones; Chapter 3. Lamarckian Historical Romance; Of Paris; Retrograde Evolution; Reading in the Dark; Le grotesque au revers du sublime; The Great Book of Mankind
- Chapter 4. Dickens: TransformistNo Humanity Here; The Poetry of Science; Dickens's Teratology; The Prose of the World; Visionary Dreariness; The Noise of the World; Chapter 5. George Eliot's Science Fiction; We Belated Historians; Knowledge and Its Languages; Species Consciousness; An Intellectual Passion; Involuntary, Palpitating Life; An Inherited Yearning; Shadows of the Coming Race; Notes; Bibliography; Index