Now a visiting professor at Gallatin College, New York University, George Levine is Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, where in almost forty years of teaching Victorian literature and the study of the relations between science and literature, he combined his own passion for nature with his literary scholarship. His Lifebirds is an autobiographical narrative about birding, and his earlier books on Darwin, Darwin and the Novelists and Darwin Loves You, brought together that feeling for the natural with a feeling for literature. He has won many awards, like Guggenheim, NEH, and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships, and has been a fellow at the study centers in Bellagio and Bogliasco, as well as at Girton College, Cambridge and Northwestern University. He was founder of the interdisciplinary study center at Rutgers, The Center for Cultural Analysis.

The passion with which he writes is engaging and, while enthusiastic, never excessive ... through his analysis of key elements of Darwin's writing and showing how they impacted on other literary authors, Levine is able to demonstrate a new way to read Darwin's works - as literature ... Levine's approach enables Darwin to be examined for his prose alone and demonstrates why the way in which Darwin's ideas were presented was, and remains, so significant ... Through this passionate and tireless work, he puts forward an excellent case for simply reading Darwin.

• 1. Darwin, the Writer ; 2. Learning to See: Darwin's Prophetic Apprenticeship on the Beagle Voyage ; 3. The Prose of On the Origin of Species ; 4. Surprise and Paradox: Darwin's Artful Legacy ; 5. Darwinian Mind and Wildean Paradox ; 6. Hardy's Woodlanders and the Darwinian Grotesque ; 7. Coda: The Comic Darwin

Now a visiting professor at Gallatin College, New York University, George Levine is Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, where in almost forty years of teaching Victorian literature and the study of the relations between science and literature, he combined his own passion for nature with his literary scholarship. His Lifebirds is an autobiographical narrative about birding, and his earlier books on Darwin, Darwin and the Novelists and Darwin Loves You, brought together that feeling for the natural with a feeling for literature. He has won many awards, like Guggenheim, NEH, and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships, and has been a fellow at the study centers in Bellagio and Bogliasco, as well as at Girton College, Cambridge and Northwestern University. He was founder of the interdisciplinary study center at Rutgers, The Center for Cultural Analysis.

The passion with which he writes is engaging and, while enthusiastic, never excessive ... through his analysis of key elements of Darwin's writing and showing how they impacted on other literary authors, Levine is able to demonstrate a new way to read Darwin's works - as literature ... Levine's approach enables Darwin to be examined for his prose alone and demonstrates why the way in which Darwin's ideas were presented was, and remains, so significant ... Through this passionate and tireless work, he puts forward an excellent case for simply reading Darwin.

• 1. Darwin, the Writer ; 2. Learning to See: Darwin's Prophetic Apprenticeship on the Beagle Voyage ; 3. The Prose of On the Origin of Species ; 4. Surprise and Paradox: Darwin's Artful Legacy ; 5. Darwinian Mind and Wildean Paradox ; 6. Hardy's Woodlanders and the Darwinian Grotesque ; 7. Coda: The Comic Darwin

Now a visiting professor at Gallatin College, New York University, George Levine is Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, where in almost forty years of teaching Victorian literature and the study of the relations between science and literature, he combined his own passion for nature with his literary scholarship. His Lifebirds is an autobiographical narrative about birding, and his earlier books on Darwin, Darwin and the Novelists and Darwin Loves You, brought together that feeling for the natural with a feeling for literature. He has won many awards, like Guggenheim, NEH, and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships, and has been a fellow at the study centers in Bellagio and Bogliasco, as well as at Girton College, Cambridge and Northwestern University. He was founder of the interdisciplinary study center at Rutgers, The Center for Cultural Analysis.

The passion with which he writes is engaging and, while enthusiastic, never excessive ... through his analysis of key elements of Darwin's writing and showing how they impacted on other literary authors, Levine is able to demonstrate a new way to read Darwin's works - as literature ... Levine's approach enables Darwin to be examined for his prose alone and demonstrates why the way in which Darwin's ideas were presented was, and remains, so significant ... Through this passionate and tireless work, he puts forward an excellent case for simply reading Darwin.

• 1. Darwin, the Writer ; 2. Learning to See: Darwin's Prophetic Apprenticeship on the Beagle Voyage ; 3. The Prose of On the Origin of Species ; 4. Surprise and Paradox: Darwin's Artful Legacy ; 5. Darwinian Mind and Wildean Paradox ; 6. Hardy's Woodlanders and the Darwinian Grotesque ; 7. Coda: The Comic Darwin