Darwin the writer /
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book written in English in the nineteenth century, transformed the way we looked at the world. It is usually assumed that this is because the idea of evolution was so staggeringly powerful. Prize-winning author George Levine...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book written in English in the nineteenth century, transformed the way we looked at the world. It is usually assumed that this is because the idea of evolution was so staggeringly powerful. Prize-winning author George Levine suggests that much of its influence was due, in fact, to its artistry; to the way it was written. Alive with metaphor, vivid descriptions, twists, hesitations, personalexclamations, and humour, the prose is imbued with the sorts of tensions, ambivalences, and feelings characteristic of great literature. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 pages : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191619345 9780191731709 0191731706 9780191619342 9780199608430 0199608431 9780191620621 0191620629 |