Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and nineteenth-century fiction / Gillian Beer.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

xxxii, 277 pages ; 24 cm

2nd ed.

'Pleasure like a tragedy': imagination and the material world -- Fit and misfitting: anthropomorphism and the natural order -- Analogy, metaphor and narrative in The origin -- Darwinian myths -- George Eliot: Middlemarch -- George Eliot: Daniel Deronda and the idea of a future life -- Descent and sexual selection: women in narrative -- Finding a scale for the human: plot and writing in Hardy's novels.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-272) and index.