Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction George Levine (Rutgers University)
Levine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists-from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose.-Frank M. Turner, Nineteenth-Century Literature. Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of its subject.-Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania