George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Make-Believe of a Beginning

Acknowledgements Preface 1. Science and social thought: the rise of organic theory 2. Adam Bede: natural history as social vision 3. The Mill on the Floss: the shadowy armies of the unconscious 4. Silas Marner: a divided Eden 5. Romola: the authority of history 6. Felix Holt: social and sexual politics 7. Middlemarch: an experiment in time 8. Daniel Deronda: fragmentation and organic union Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.