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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
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Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Intro; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Experiment and the Art of Writing; Chapter 1 The Art of Science: Nineteenth-Century Theory and the Logic of Practice; Chapter 2 Learning by Experiment: T.H. Huxley and the Aesthetic Nature of Education; Chapter 3 Following the Actors: G.H. Lewes's and George Eliot's Studies in Life; Chapter 4 Steps Towards an Ecology of Experience: Empiricism, Pragmatism and George Eliot's The Spanish Gypsy; Chapter 5 Speech in Action: Victorian Philology and the Uprooting of Language |
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Chapter 6 William Morris's 'Work-Pleasure': Literature, Science and Fine ArtChapter 7 Robert Browning's Experiment: Composition and Communication in The Ring and the Book; Chapter 8 The Making of Sensation Fiction; Clothing Matter: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
What is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? Artful Experiments seeks to approach the field of literature and science in a way that is not so much centred on discourses of established knowledge as it is on practices of investigating what is no longer or not yet knowledge. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Science -- Great Britain -- Experiments -- History -- 19th century.
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Science. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: 1474438954 9781474438957 (OCoLC)1039940282 |
ISBN |
9781474438971 (electronic book) |
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1474438970 (electronic book) |
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9781474438988 (electronic book) |
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1474438989 (electronic book) |
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9781474438957 |
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1474438954 |
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