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 un…
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A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 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 hu…
Daniel Dennett famously claimed for Darwinian theory the status of universal solvent: the totalising theory of theories, even of theories of literature. Yet only a few writers and critics have followed his view. This volume asks why. It examines both evolution in literature, and…
Daniel Dennett famously claimed for Darwinian theory the status of universal solvent: the totalising theory of theories, even of theories of literature. Yet only a few writers and critics have followed his view. This volume asks why. It examines both evolution in literature, and…
