Author: Tina Young Choi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503629767
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Contingency is not just a feature of modern politics, finance, and culture—by thinking contingently, nineteenth-century Britons rewrote familiar narratives and upended forgone conclusions. Victorian Contingencies shows how scientists, novelists, and consumers engaged in new formal and material experiments with cause and effect, past and present, that actively undermined routine certainties. Tina Young Choi traces contingency across a wide range of materials and media, from newspaper advertisements and children's stories to well-known novels, scientific discoveries, technological innovations. She shows how Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin reinvented geological and natural histories as spaces for temporal and causal experimentation, while the nascent insurance industry influenced Charles Babbage's computational designs for a machine capable of responding to a contingent future. Choi pairs novelists George Eliot and Lewis Carroll with physicist James Clerk Maxwell, demonstrating how they introduced possibility and probability into once-assured literary and scientific narratives. And she explores the popular board games and pre-cinematic visual entertainments that encouraged Victorians to navigate a world made newly uncertain. By locating contingency within these cultural contexts, this book invites a deep and multidisciplinary reassessment of the longer histories of causality, closure, and chance.
Victorian Contingencies
Author: Tina Young Choi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503629767
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Contingency is not just a feature of modern politics, finance, and culture—by thinking contingently, nineteenth-century Britons rewrote familiar narratives and upended forgone conclusions. Victorian Contingencies shows how scientists, novelists, and consumers engaged in new formal and material experiments with cause and effect, past and present, that actively undermined routine certainties. Tina Young Choi traces contingency across a wide range of materials and media, from newspaper advertisements and children's stories to well-known novels, scientific discoveries, technological innovations. She shows how Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin reinvented geological and natural histories as spaces for temporal and causal experimentation, while the nascent insurance industry influenced Charles Babbage's computational designs for a machine capable of responding to a contingent future. Choi pairs novelists George Eliot and Lewis Carroll with physicist James Clerk Maxwell, demonstrating how they introduced possibility and probability into once-assured literary and scientific narratives. And she explores the popular board games and pre-cinematic visual entertainments that encouraged Victorians to navigate a world made newly uncertain. By locating contingency within these cultural contexts, this book invites a deep and multidisciplinary reassessment of the longer histories of causality, closure, and chance.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503629767
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Contingency is not just a feature of modern politics, finance, and culture—by thinking contingently, nineteenth-century Britons rewrote familiar narratives and upended forgone conclusions. Victorian Contingencies shows how scientists, novelists, and consumers engaged in new formal and material experiments with cause and effect, past and present, that actively undermined routine certainties. Tina Young Choi traces contingency across a wide range of materials and media, from newspaper advertisements and children's stories to well-known novels, scientific discoveries, technological innovations. She shows how Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin reinvented geological and natural histories as spaces for temporal and causal experimentation, while the nascent insurance industry influenced Charles Babbage's computational designs for a machine capable of responding to a contingent future. Choi pairs novelists George Eliot and Lewis Carroll with physicist James Clerk Maxwell, demonstrating how they introduced possibility and probability into once-assured literary and scientific narratives. And she explores the popular board games and pre-cinematic visual entertainments that encouraged Victorians to navigate a world made newly uncertain. By locating contingency within these cultural contexts, this book invites a deep and multidisciplinary reassessment of the longer histories of causality, closure, and chance.
Acts of the Parliament of Victoria
Author: Victoria
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Statistical Register of the Colony of Victoria
Author: Victoria Statist's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Vol. for 1895 contains Statistical summary 1836-95 (table)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Vol. for 1895 contains Statistical summary 1836-95 (table)
Victorian Hansard, Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Legislative Council and Assembly
Author: Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Assembly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Records of the Proceedings and Printed Papers of the Parliament
Author: Australia. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
Commonwealth Of Australia Gazette
Author: Australia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Victorian Reports
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
The Victorian Law Reports
Author: Victoria. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
The Art of Uncertainty
Author: Daniel Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009436112
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Daniel Williams shows how, in a profoundly numerical age, Victorian novels imagined thought and action in the face of uncertainty.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009436112
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Daniel Williams shows how, in a profoundly numerical age, Victorian novels imagined thought and action in the face of uncertainty.
Imagining Otherwise
Author: Debra Gettelman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691260451
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
How Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heights As novel publication exploded in nineteenth-century Britain, writers such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot learned from experience—sometimes grudgingly—that readers tend to make their own imaginative contributions to fictional worlds. Imagining Otherwise shows how Victorian writers acknowledged, grappled with, and ultimately enlisted the prerogative of readers to conjure alternatives and add depth to the words on the page. Debra Gettelman provides incisive new readings of novels such as Sense and Sensibility, Little Dorrit, and Middlemarch, exploring how novelists known for prescriptive and didactic narrative voices were at the same time exploring the aesthetic potential for the reader’s independent imagination to lend nuance and authenticity to fiction. Modernist authors of the twentieth century have long been considered pioneers in cultivating the reader’s capacity to imagine what is not said as part of the art of fiction. Gettelman uncovers the roots of this tradition of novel reading a century earlier and challenges literary criticism that dismisses this spontaneous, readerly impulse as being unworthy of serious examination. As readers demand novels with relatable characters and fan fiction grows in popularity, the reader’s imagination has become a determining element of today’s literary environment. Imagining Otherwise takes a deeper look at this history, offering a critical perspective on how we came to view fiction as a site of imaginative appropriation.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691260451
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
How Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heights As novel publication exploded in nineteenth-century Britain, writers such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot learned from experience—sometimes grudgingly—that readers tend to make their own imaginative contributions to fictional worlds. Imagining Otherwise shows how Victorian writers acknowledged, grappled with, and ultimately enlisted the prerogative of readers to conjure alternatives and add depth to the words on the page. Debra Gettelman provides incisive new readings of novels such as Sense and Sensibility, Little Dorrit, and Middlemarch, exploring how novelists known for prescriptive and didactic narrative voices were at the same time exploring the aesthetic potential for the reader’s independent imagination to lend nuance and authenticity to fiction. Modernist authors of the twentieth century have long been considered pioneers in cultivating the reader’s capacity to imagine what is not said as part of the art of fiction. Gettelman uncovers the roots of this tradition of novel reading a century earlier and challenges literary criticism that dismisses this spontaneous, readerly impulse as being unworthy of serious examination. As readers demand novels with relatable characters and fan fiction grows in popularity, the reader’s imagination has become a determining element of today’s literary environment. Imagining Otherwise takes a deeper look at this history, offering a critical perspective on how we came to view fiction as a site of imaginative appropriation.