The physics of possibility : Victorian fiction, science, and gender /
Tondre, Michael,author.
"This book charts the discovery of probability and chance in Victorian science and its influence on the literature and culture of the period." --
"This book charts the discovery of probability and chance in Victorian science and its influence on the literature and culture of the period." --
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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".
English fiction
Literature and science
Science in literature.
English fiction.
Intellectual life.
Literature and science.
Science in literature.