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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tondre, Michael, author.

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and science.

Great Britain.

History.

Science in literature.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 230 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.

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.

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".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813941455

0813941458

OCLC:

1019583137