| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture |
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Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 6, 2018) |
| Subject |
Science -- Great Britain -- Experiments -- History -- 19th century
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SCIENCE -- History.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Science -- Experiments
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474438971 |
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1474438970 |
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9781474438988 |
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1474438989 |
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1474438954 |
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9781474438957 |
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