Packet 5: Bonus 7

This thinker fueled Thomas Hardy’s obsession with the “failure of things to be what they are meant to be” according to a Gillian Beer book titled for this thinker’s “plots.” For 10 points each:
[10m] What thinker’s ideas are defended in Charles Kingsley’s novel The Water-Babies and applied to machines in Samuel Butler’s novel Erewhon?
ANSWER: Charles Darwin [or Charles Robert Darwin; accept Darwin’s Plots; accept “Darwin Among the Machines”]
[10h] Beer also explored this novel’s motif of genetic inheritance and “blent transmission.” R. H. Hutton criticized the “over-scientific” opening of this novel, which examines a woman playing roulette at a German resort.
ANSWER: Daniel Deronda (by George Eliot)
[10e] Beer’s most recent book is about the “sideways Victorian world” of this author. This author of the rhyme “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat” played with a paradox by Zeno in “What the Tortoise Said to Achilles.”
ANSWER: Lewis Carroll [or Charles Dodgson] (Beer’s book is Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll.)
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