TY - BOOK AU - Tondre,Michael TI - The physics of possibility: Victorian fiction, science, and gender T2 - Victorian literature and culture series SN - 9780813941455 AV - PR878 .P497 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - English fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and science KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Science in literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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"; 2; b N2 - "This book charts the discovery of probability and chance in Victorian science and its influence on the literature and culture of the period." -- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1946524&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -