Darwin and the Novelists
Subtitle: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780226475745
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; 19th Century English Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; History; Life Sciences - Evolution; Darwin, Charles; Influence; Science / History; 19th century; English fiction; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Great Britain; History and criticism; Literature And Science
First sentence: OF THE GREAT nineteenth-century scientists, Darwin is the one whose impact on nonscientific culture is best known, or at least most widely discussed.