Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction

Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction

Levine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists—from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. "Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose."—Frank M. Turner, Nineteenth-Century Literature . "Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of its subject."—Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania George Levine is the Kenneth Burke Professor of English and director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers University. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of sixteen books, including The Realistic Imagination and Darwin and the Novelists , both published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as Lifebirds .