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Useful Knowledge : The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect /

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A statement on how "knowledge" is socialized and assimilated by a culture, investigating popular and canonical fiction, early encyclopedias, and other popular efforts at mass education and knowledge dissemination.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Rauch, Alan (Autor)
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
Colección:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:	Victoriaanse tijd. Moraal. Intellectualisme. Wetenschap. Kennis. Romans. Literature and science. Learning and scholarship in literature. Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. Intellectuals in literature. Intellectual life. Ethics in literature. English fiction. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Morale dans la litterature. Intellectuels dans la litterature. Savoir et erudition dans la litterature. Litterature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle. Theorie de la connaissance dans la litterature. Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique. Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century. English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Great Britain. Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1837-1901 (Victoria) Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siecle. Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901. Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century. History. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
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Knowledge and the novel
Food for thought : the dissemination of knowledge in the early nineteenth century
Science in the popular novel : Jane Webb Loudon's The mummy!
The monstrous body of knowledge : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Lessons learned in class : Charlotte Brontë's The professor
The tailor transformed : Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke
Destiny as an unmapped river : George Eliot's The mill on the floss.