Human Forms : : The Novel in the Age of Evolution / / Ian Duncan.

A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption of a stable, universal human nature...

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Introduction. The Human Age --   |t Chapter Two. The Form of the Novel --   |t Chapter Three. Lamarckian Historical Romance --   |t Chapter Four. Dickens --   |t Chapter Five. George Eliot’s Science Fiction --   |t Notes --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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520 |a A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption of a stable, universal human nature to one that changes over time. In Human Forms, Ian Duncan reorients our understanding of the novel's formation during its cultural ascendancy, arguing that fiction produced new knowledge in a period characterized by the interplay between literary and scientific discourses—even as the two were separating into distinct domains.Duncan focuses on several crisis points: the contentious formation of a natural history of the human species in the late Enlightenment; the emergence of new genres such as the Romantic bildungsroman; historical novels by Walter Scott and Victor Hugo that confronted the dissolution of the idea of a fixed human nature; Charles Dickens's transformist aesthetic and its challenge to Victorian realism; and George Eliot's reckoning with the nineteenth-century revolutions in the human and natural sciences. Modeling the modern scientific conception of a developmental human nature, the novel became a major experimental instrument for managing the new set of divisions—between nature and history, individual and species, human and biological life—that replaced the ancient schism between animal body and immortal soul.The first book to explore the interaction of European fiction with "the natural history of man" from the late Enlightenment through the mid-Victorian era, Human Forms sets a new standard for work on natural history and the novel. 
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650 0 |a European fiction  |y 18th century  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a European fiction  |y 19th century  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Evolution (Biology) in literature. 
650 0 |a Evolution (Biology)  |z Europe  |x History. 
650 0 |a Fiction  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Humanity in literature. 
650 0 |a Literature and science  |z Europe  |x History  |y 19th century. 
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653 |a A Treatise of Human Nature. 
653 |a Allegory. 
653 |a Allusion. 
653 |a Analogy. 
653 |a Anatomy. 
653 |a Anthropocentrism. 
653 |a Bildung. 
653 |a Bildungsroman. 
653 |a Charles Darwin. 
653 |a Charles Lyell. 
653 |a Conjectural history. 
653 |a Consciousness. 
653 |a Daniel Deronda. 
653 |a Dialectic. 
653 |a English novel. 
653 |a Evocation. 
653 |a Evolutionism. 
653 |a Explanation. 
653 |a Fiction. 
653 |a Font Bureau. 
653 |a Franco Moretti. 
653 |a Genre. 
653 |a George Eliot. 
653 |a Henri Bergson. 
653 |a Herbert Spencer. 
653 |a Herder. 
653 |a Historical fiction. 
653 |a Historical romance. 
653 |a Historicism. 
653 |a Homo duplex. 
653 |a Hypothesis. 
653 |a Immanence. 
653 |a Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. 
653 |a Lamarckism. 
653 |a Lecture. 
653 |a Literary realism. 
653 |a Literature. 
653 |a Mary Shelley. 
653 |a Modernity. 
653 |a Narration. 
653 |a Narrative. 
653 |a Novel. 
653 |a Novelist. 
653 |a On the Origin of Species. 
653 |a P. J. Conkwright. 
653 |a Philosopher. 
653 |a Philosophical anthropology. 
653 |a Philosophy of biology. 
653 |a Philosophy. 
653 |a Poetry. 
653 |a Principles of Geology. 
653 |a Prose. 
653 |a Rhetoric. 
653 |a Romanticism. 
653 |a Science fiction. 
653 |a Science of man. 
653 |a Science. 
653 |a Scientist. 
653 |a Scottish Enlightenment. 
653 |a Seminar. 
653 |a Sensibility. 
653 |a Teratology. 
653 |a The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. 
653 |a The Realist. 
653 |a Theory of Forms. 
653 |a Theory. 
653 |a Thought. 
653 |a Treatise. 
653 |a Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. 
653 |a Writing. 
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