- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages)
- Summary
- The 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.
- Uniform Title
- Human forms (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Human forms (Online)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-278) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction. The human age -- Chapter 1. The form of man. Conjecture, history, science, fiction ; The faculty of perfection ; The formation of humanity ; The paragon of animals -- Chapter 2. The form of the novel. Novelistic revolution ; Bildungsroman ; Infinity or totality ; The classical form of the historical novel ; The dignity of the human race, the glory of the world ; Dark unhappy ones -- Chapter 3. Lamarckian historical romance. Of Paris ; Retrograde evolution ; Reading in the dark ; Le grotesque au revers du sublime ; The great book of mankind -- Chapter 4. Dickens : transformist. No humanity here ; The poetry of science ; Dickens's teratology ; The prose of the world ; Visionary dreariness ; The noise of the world -- Chapter 5. George Eliot's science fiction. We belated historians ; Knowledge and its languages ; Species consciousness ; An intellectual passion ; Involuntary, palpitating life ; An inherited yearning ; Shadows of the coming race.
- LCCN
- 2019931719
- OCLC
- ssj0002404120
- Author
Duncan, Ian, 1955-
- Title
Human forms [electronic resource] : the novel in the age of evolution / Ian Duncan.
- Imprint
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-278) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Chronological Term
1700-1899