Tondre, Michael, <br/><br/>
The physics of possibility :  Victorian fiction, science, and gender / 
Michael Tondre. 
 - Charlottesville :  University of Virginia Press,  (c)2018. 
 - 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) 
 - Victorian literature and culture series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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". 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813941455 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>Literature and science--History--Great Britain--19th century.<br/>Science in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR878  / .P497 2018