darwin and the novelists: patterns of science in victorian fiction

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About the Book: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