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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures vi
4. Preface vii
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Series Editors’ Preface xii
7. List of Abbreviations xiii
8. Introduction 1
9. 1 Bildung, Biology and the Narrative Structure of Development 28
10. 2 A Portrait of the Artist as a ‘Biologist in Words’: Language, Epiphany and Atavistic Bildung 54
11. 3 Mendelian Inheritance, ‘Eternal Differences’ and Entropy in Howards End 80
12. 4 ‘Tampering with the Expected Sequence’: Heterochrony and Sex Change in Orlando 108
13. 5 Anachrony, Neoteny and the ‘Education of an Amphibian’ in Eyeless in Gaza 134
14. 6 Beginning Again: Darwin’s Caterpillar from George Eliot to Beckett 163
15. Conclusion 188
16. Bibliography 193
17. Index 224