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Author:

Tondre, Michael, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

ix, 230 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Science in literature.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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".

Summary:

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

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

ISBN:

0813941458
9780813941455

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1019583137

LCCN:

2018010416

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)