Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-century Fiction

affinities analogy animals anthropomorphism argument become Bernard Cambridge chapter Charles Darwin Claude Bernard Comte concept congruity consciousness creative culture Daniel Deronda Darwin's theory Darwinian theory descent discussion diverse earth edition elements emotion emphasis essay Evolution evolutionary ideas evolutionary theory experience expressed fear fiction future G. H. Lewes Geology George Eliot Grandcourt growth Gwendolen Hardy Hardy's human imaginative implications individual inheritance insistence Kingsley kinship Lamarck language laws living London Lyell man's means metamorphosis metaphor Middlemarch mind Mirah myth narrative Natural History natural order natural selection natural world notebooks novel observation organic organisation Origin of Species particular passage past physical plants plot possible preoccupation present Principles problems profusion R. A. Proctor race reader reading relations scientific sense sexual selection single social story structure struggle suggests survival T. H. Huxley teleology Tess things Thomas Hardy transformation tree Victorian women word writing