Darwin the writer / by George Levine.

Contents Darwin the writer -- Learning to see : Darwin's prophetic apprenticeship on the Beagle voyage -- The prose of On the origin of species -- Surprise and paradox : Darwin's artful legacy -- Darwinian mind and Wildean paradox -- Hardy's Woodlanders and the Darwinian grotesque -- Coda: The comic Darwin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235) and index.
Bibliography note"Select bibliography on Darwin, his theory, and its extrascientific connections": p. [223]-235.
LCCN 2011929288
ISBN9780199608430 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
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