The Science of Character : Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism /

The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new science, "the science of the formation of char...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brilmyer, S. Pearl (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022]
Colección:Thinking Literature
Temas:
Characters and characteristics in literature.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Personality development.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
john stuart mill, science, character, identity, realist fiction, embodiment, olive schreiner, thomas hardy, george eliot, literature, victorian, england, race, gender, aesthetics, affect, emotions, nonfiction, middlemarch, temperament, heredity, schopenhauer, femininity, women, feminism, nature, modernism, humanity, honor, materialism, theophrastus such.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • Introduction. Ethology, or the Science of Character
  • Chapter 1. Plasticity, Form, and the Physics of Character in Eliot's Middlemarch
  • Chapter 2. Sensing Character in Impressions of Theophrastus Such
  • Chapter 3. The Racialization of Surface in Hardy's Sketch of Temperament and Hereditary Science
  • Chapter 4. Schopenhauer and the Determination of Women's Character
  • Chapter 5. The Intimate Pulse of Reality; or, Schreiner's Ethological Realism
  • Coda. Spontaneous Generations of Character between Realism and Modernism
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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