The Emergence of Emergence: G. H. Lewes, Middlemarch, and Social Order

DAN EDWARD BIVONA teaches Nineteenth–Century British Literature at Arizona State University. His books include Desire and Contradiction: Imperial Visions and Domestic Debates in Victorian Literature (Manchester UP, 1990), British Imperial Literature, 1870-1940: Writing and the Administration of Empire (Cambridge UP, 1998), and (with Roger B. Henkle) The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Ohio State UP, 2006). He has recently finished a coedited collection with Marlene Tromp entitled Abstracting Economics: Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century (appearing with Ohio UP in 2016) and is currently at work on a monograph on character and competition in the Victorian age. His essays have appeared in journals such as Nineteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth Century Studies, Nineteenth-Century Prose, Novel, and The Yearbook of English Studies.