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Gillian Beer is the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature Emerita at the University of Cambridge. Her books include Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground. Named Dame Commander of the Order of mostra altro the British Empire in 1998, she has edited popular editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Jane Austen's Persuasion, and Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems. mostra meno
Opere di Gillian Beer
Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1983) 113 copie
Arguing With the Past: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney (University paperbacks) (1989) 8 copie
Travelling the other way 1 copia
The egoist (Meredith) 1 copia
Stations Without Signs 1 copia
Μυθιστορία 1 copia
Opere correlate
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems (Penguin Clothbound Classics) (2012) — A cura di — 204 copie
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- Data di nascita
- 1935-01-27
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Surrey, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Oxford University
Cambridge University
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- Opere
- 14
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 232
- Popolarità
- #97,292
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 48
added June 2014:
Early in my graduate school career I read the first edition of this; now I read the third for my generals. (There are no differences of substance, just a new preface for the second edition and a bonus essay for the third.) It's an excellent (dare I say seminal?) piece of literary criticism, forming a triumvirate with the works of Levine and Shuttleworth (though it's perhaps the one of three least directly relevant to my own research). The thing Beer does really well and importantly is treat Darwin's own writings as something worthy of literary study, not just historical documents.… (altro)