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Author Tondre, Michael, author.

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

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
©2018
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Victorian literature and culture series
Victorian literature and culture series.
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.
Bibliography 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."
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and science.
Great Britain.
History.
Science in literature.
Science in literature.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Tondre, Michael. Physics of possibility. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018 9780813941455 (DLC) 2018010416 (OCoLC)1019583137
ISBN 9780813941455 (electronic book)
0813941458 (electronic book)
9780813941462
0813941466
0813941458

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