The physics of possibility : Victorian fiction, science, and gender /

Show other versions (1)

"This book charts the discovery of probability and chance in Victorian science and its influence on the literature and culture of the period."--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tondre, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Series:Victorian literature and culture series.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Science in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sciences dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction
Intellectual life
Literature and science
Science in literature
Englisch
Naturwissenschaften
Roman
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: developmental logics
  • The lost futures of the novel: negated potential in Richard Feverel
  • "The interval of expectation": Armadale and the history of the present
  • "A nat'ral born friend": the evolution of community in Dombey and Son
  • George Eliot's "Fine excess": Middlemarch, energy, and incalculable diffusion
  • Conclusion: "The varying experiments of time."

Similar Items