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01928aam a2200385 i 4500 001 DB580FBEE19111E89124B82197128E48 003 SILO 005 20181106010116 008 180406t20182018vau b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2018010416 020 $a 0813941458 020 $a 9780813941455 035 $a (OCoLC)1019583137 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OBE $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR878 S34 T66 2018 100 1 $a Tondre, Michael, $e author. 245 14 $a The physics of possibility : $b Victorian fiction, science, and gender / $c Michael Tondre. 264 1 $a Charlottesville : $b University of Virginia Press, $c 2018. 300 $a ix, 230 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Victorian literature and culture series 520 $a "This book charts the discovery of probability and chance in Victorian science and its influence on the literature and culture of the period." -- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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". 650 0 $a English fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and science $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Science in literature. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Intellectual life $y 19th century. 830 0 $a Victorian literature and culture series. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20210721013137.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200303020630.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DB580FBEE19111E89124B82197128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search