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03685aam a2200481 i 4500 001 DE7C2D20EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 210716t20222022ilua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021034811 020 $a 0226815781 020 $a 9780226815787 020 $a 0226815773 020 $a 9780226815770 035 $a (OCoLC)1241244169 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d IND $d TFW $d YDX $d XII $d OCLCA $d OCLCO $d JNA $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR461 $b .B75 2022 082 00 $a 823/.809 $2 23 100 1 $a Brilmyer, S. Pearl, $e author. 245 14 $a The science of character : $b human objecthood and the ends of Victorian realism / $c S. Pearl Brilmyer. 246 30 $a Human objecthood and the ends of Victorian realism 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 289 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Thinking literature 520 $a "In 1843, the Victorian political theorist John Stuart Mill outlined a new science, 'the science of the formation of character.' Although Mill's proposal failed as scientific practice, S. Pearl Brilmyer shows that it survived in the work of Victorian novelists, who cultivated a narrative science of human nature. Brilmyer explores this characterological project in the work of such novelists as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner. Bringing to life Mill's unrealized dream of a science of character, Victorian realists used fiction to investigate the nature of embodied experience, how traits and behaviors in human and nonhuman organisms emerge and develop, and how aesthetic features-shapes, colors, and gestures-come to take on cultural meaning through certain categories, such as race and sex. In the hands of these authors, Brilmyer argues, literature became a science, not in the sense that its claims were falsifiable or even systematically articulated, but in its commitment to uncovering, through a fictional staging of realistic events, the universal laws governing human life. The Science of Character offers brilliant insights into important novels of the period, including Eliot's Middlemarch, and a fuller picture of English realism during the crucial span between 1870 and 1920."-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical (pages 249-273) references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Ethology, or the science of character -- Plasticity, form, and the physics of character in Eliot's Middlemarch -- Sensing character in Impressions of Theophrastus Such -- The racialization of surface in Hardy's Sketch of temperament and hereditary science -- Schopenhauer and the determination of women's character -- The intimate pulse of reality; or, Schreiner's ethological realism -- Coda: Spontaneous generations of character between realism and modernism. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a English literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Human behavior in literature. 650 0 $a Ethics, Modern $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Characters and characteristics in literature. 650 0 $a Personality development in literature. 650 7 $a Characters and characteristics in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00852295 650 7 $a English literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a Personality development. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01058738 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Thinking literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021556.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DE7C2D20EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search