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The physics of possibility : Victorian fiction, science, and gender
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- Summary
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"This book charts the discovery of probability and chance in Victorian science and its influence on the literature and culture of the period." --
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- Creator
- Michael Tondre
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- ix, 230 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0813941466, 9780813941462, 9780813941455, 0813941458
- OCLC
- on1076830310, on1019583137, on1076543648
- 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"