Question
A Gillian Beer book titled for this writer’s Plots analyzes the influence of this writer’s works on Thomas Hardy’s attempts to “find a scale for the human.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this writer whose journal recounts their circumnavigation of the world with Robert FitzRoy.
ANSWER: Charles Darwin [or Charles Robert Darwin]
[10h] Beer notes that this section of a larger work proposes a Darwinian study of “the history of man… under the varying experiments of Time.” This section discusses the “many [Saint] Theresas” who “found for themselves no epic life.”
ANSWER: the “Prelude” to Middlemarch [prompt on descriptive answers such as the preface to Middlemarch or the opening of Middlemarch]
[10m] Beer also analyzes a passage in A Pair of Blue Eyes in which Knight contemplates one of these objects while hanging from a cliff. Charles Smithson is an amateur enthusiast of these objects in The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
ANSWER: fossils [accept ammonites; accept trilobites; accept petrified sea urchins or tests or sand dollars; prompt on just sea urchins]
<Henry Atkins, British Literature>
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