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- Title
Science as Literature, Science As Text.
- Authors
Ritvo, Harriet
- Abstract
Focuses on the book 'Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction,' by Gillian Beer. Packaging of the book as literary criticism; Argument that science is inevitably anthropreferential; Assertion that attempts to understand science in purely scientific terms must be incomplete; Characteristics that make Darwin's writings Victorian.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; DARWIN'S Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot &; 19th Century Fiction (Book); NINETEENTH century; 19TH century English literature; LITERATURE &; science; CRITICISM; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Victorian Culture, 2000, Vol 5, Issue 1, p136
- ISSN
1355-5502
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/jvc.2000.5.1.136