Jane Austen & Charles Darwin naturalists and novelists
Are Austen and Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century? Peter W. Graham brings these two icons of nineteenth-century British culture into intellectual conversation by situating both writers in the empirical tradition. Employing trenchant analysis informed by a wealth of historical and biographical detail and recent work by historians of science, Graham's comparative study gives us a new entree into Austen's and Darwin's writings
1 online resource (215 p.).
9781409475118, 9781317111481, 9781281798794, 9786611798796, 9780754693536, 1409475115, 1317111486, 1281798797, 661179879X, 0754693538
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Abbreviations; General Editors' Preface; Introduction and Acknowledgments; 1 "3 or 4 Families in a Country Village," or Naturalists, Novelists, Empiricists, and Serendipidists; 2 "An Entangled Bank," or Sibling Development in a Family Ecosystem; 3 "Marry-Mary-Marry"; 4 Variations on Variation; Select Bibliography; Index
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English