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The physics of possibility : Victorian fiction, science, and gender / Michael Tondre.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813941455
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR878 .P497 2018
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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".
Subject: "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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PR878.34 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1076543648

"This book charts the discovery of probability and chance in Victorian science and its influence on the literature and culture of the period." --

Includes bibliographies 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".

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