"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