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Author Newman, Daniel Aureliano, author

Title Modernist life histories : biological theory and the experimental bildungsroman / Daniel Aureliano Newman
Edition 100,000
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
Contents List of illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Bildung, Biology and the Narrative Structure of Development; 2. A Portrait of the Artist as a 'Biologist in Words': Language, Epiphany and Atavistic Bildung; 3. Mendelian Inheritance, 'Eternal Differences' and Entropy in Howards End; 4. 'Tampering with the Expected Sequence': Heterochrony and Sex Change in Orlando; 5. Anachrony, Neoteny and the 'Education of an Amphibian' in Eyeless in Gaza; 6. Beginning again: Darwin's Caterpillar from George Eliot to Beckett; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Notes Previously issued in print: 2018
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Subject Bildungsromans -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and cricitism
Narration (Rhetoric)
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Bildungsromans
Narration (Rhetoric)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781474439640
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9781474439633
1474439632