The Literary Evolution of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of the Darwinian Vision in the Doctor's Wife and Other Novels

by Ruth Morris

This work is a comparative reading of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Doctor's Wife (1864) with its source text, Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857). The study argues that the geotheories prevalent in England and France at the time each of the respective novels was written offer compelling reasons to understand why the two novels diverge so dramatically. There is a consideration of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species and Georges Cuvier's work...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680530526
• ISBN13: 9781680530520
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Academica Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"