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Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like

Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like

Morgentaler, G.

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0333747232
ISBN13: 9780333747230
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 10 1999
Pages: 221
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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.

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