TY  - BOOK
AU  - Duncan,Ian
TI  - Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution 
SN  - 9780691194189
AV  - PN3331 .D8 2020
U1  - 809.3 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - European fiction
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Evolution (Biology) in literature
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Humanity in literature
KW  - Literature and science
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - A Treatise of Human Nature
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Allusion
KW  - Analogy
KW  - Anatomy
KW  - Anthropocentrism
KW  - Bildung
KW  - Bildungsroman
KW  - Charles Darwin
KW  - Charles Lyell
KW  - Conjectural history
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Daniel Deronda
KW  - Dialectic
KW  - English novel
KW  - Evocation
KW  - Evolutionism
KW  - Explanation
KW  - Font Bureau
KW  - Franco Moretti
KW  - Genre
KW  - George Eliot
KW  - Henri Bergson
KW  - Herbert Spencer
KW  - Herder
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Historical romance
KW  - Historicism
KW  - Homo duplex
KW  - Hypothesis
KW  - Immanence
KW  - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
KW  - Lamarckism
KW  - Lecture
KW  - Literary realism
KW  - Literature
KW  - Mary Shelley
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Narration
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Novel
KW  - Novelist
KW  - On the Origin of Species
KW  - P. J. Conkwright
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Philosophical anthropology
KW  - Philosophy of biology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Principles of Geology
KW  - Prose
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Science of man
KW  - Science
KW  - Scientist
KW  - Scottish Enlightenment
KW  - Seminar
KW  - Sensibility
KW  - Teratology
KW  - The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
KW  - The Realist
KW  - Theory of Forms
KW  - Theory
KW  - Thought
KW  - Treatise
KW  - Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. The Human Age --; Chapter Two. The Form of the Novel --; Chapter Three. Lamarckian Historical Romance --; Chapter Four. Dickens --; Chapter Five. George Eliot’s Science Fiction --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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 human nature to one that changes over time. In Human Forms, Ian Duncan reorients our understanding of the novel's formation during its cultural ascendancy, arguing that fiction produced new knowledge in a period characterized by the interplay between literary and scientific discourses—even as the two were separating into distinct domains.Duncan focuses on several crisis points: the contentious formation of a natural history of the human species in the late Enlightenment; the emergence of new genres such as the Romantic bildungsroman; historical novels by Walter Scott and Victor Hugo that confronted the dissolution of the idea of a fixed human nature; Charles Dickens's transformist aesthetic and its challenge to Victorian realism; and George Eliot's reckoning with the nineteenth-century revolutions in the human and natural sciences. Modeling the modern scientific conception of a developmental human nature, the novel became a major experimental instrument for managing the new set of divisions—between nature and history, individual and species, human and biological life—that replaced the ancient schism between animal body and immortal soul.The first book to explore the interaction of European fiction with "the natural history of man" from the late Enlightenment through the mid-Victorian era, Human Forms sets a new standard for work on natural history and the novel
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691194189?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691194189
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691194189/original
ER  -