Books by George (Rutgers University) Levine

Levine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. "Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose." Frank M. Turner, "Nineteenth-Century Literature." "Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of its subject." Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania"

How to Read the Victorian Novel unpicks our comfortable expectations of the genre to fully explore just how unfamiliar its familiarity is: emphasizing the complexity and contradictions in Victorian writers' attempts to deal with a world heading into modernity at full speed.