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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Rauch, Alan (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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