George Eliot and Nineteenth-century Science : The Make-believe of a Beginning (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Science and social thought: the rise of organic theory; 2. Adam Bede: natural history as social vision; 3. The Mill on the Floss: the shadowy armies of the unconscious; 4. Silas Marner: a divided Eden; 5. Romola: the authority of history; 6. Felix Holt: social and sexual politics; 7. Middlemarch: an experiment in time; 8. Daniel Deronda: fragmentation and organic union; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.