| Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Morgentaler, G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333747232 ISBN-13: 9780333747230 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 823 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5" W x 8" (0.80 lbs) 221 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Despite the modern obsession with genetics and reproductive technology, very little has been written about Dickens's fascination with heredity, nor the impact that this fascination had on his novels . Dickens and Heredity is an attempt to rectify that omission by describing the hereditary theories that were current in Dickens's time and how these are reflected in his fiction. The book also argues that Dickens jettisoned his earlier belief in the prescriptive and deterministic potential of heredity after Darwin published The Origin of the Species in 1859. |