Probability, particularity, and the uncertain futures of Austen's very minor characters -- Reading chance, encountering otherness in Scott -- Dickensian coincidence, cognitive mapping, and the Victorian metropolis -- Odds, statistics, and chance: problems of causality in the Trollopean bildungsroman -- Chance, historicism, Hardy -- Coda: The difference of scale.
Summary:
"Reading chance as a tension between randomness and order, this book shows how novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy resist the demands of probabilistic representation to develop strategies for capturing cultural particularity and historical transformation"-- Provided by publisher.
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