Autor: Gillian Beer

Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These acclaimed and challenging essays explore how ideas are transformed as they come under the stress of unforeseen readers. Using a wealth …

’can we doubt … that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?’In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin cha …

Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These acclaimed and challenging essays explore how ideas are transformed as they come under the stress of unforeseen readers. Using a wealth …

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First published in 1970, this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time, including its interaction with othe …

First published in 1970, this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time, including its interaction with othe …

"’Interdisciplinarity’ has dynamised the Modern Humanities like no other recent academic trend. Yet, this presents serious challenges involving both translation and affect: how can we transmit f …

"’Interdisciplinarity’ has dynamised the Modern Humanities like no other recent academic trend. Yet, this presents serious challenges involving both translation and affect: how can we transmit f …

First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writ …

First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writ …

The new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips’ general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be app …

’One of the great writers of the twentieth century’ Guardian It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will tell the sto …

’In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she had supposed’ Virginia Woolf Jane Austen’s moving late novel of missed oppor …

Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his …

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’can we doubt … that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?’In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin cha …

This book for the first time brings together Gillian Beer’s essays on Virginia Woolf. Widely recognised as a leading authority on Woolf and a sophisticated critic of modernism and fiction, Beer’s ess …