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Victorian Empiricism

Author : Peter Garratt
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0838642667
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Empiricism written by Peter Garratt and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empiricism, one of Raymond William's keywords, circulates in much contemporary thought and criticism solely as a term of censure, a synonym for spurious objectivity or positivism. Yet rarely, if ever, has it had this philosophical implication. Dr Johnson, it should be recalled, kicked the stone precisely to expose empiricism's baroque falsifications of common sense. In an effort to restore historical depth to the term, this book examines epistemology in the narrative prose of five writers, John Ruskin, Alexander Bain, G. H. Lewes, Herbert Spencer, and George Eliot, developing the view that the flourishing of nineteenth-century scientific culture occurred at a time when empiricism itself was critically dismantling any such naive representationalism. --

Artful Experiments

Author : Philipp Erchinger
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474438989
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Artful Experiments written by Philipp Erchinger and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain them

The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature

Author : Dennis Denisoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429018177
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature written by Dennis Denisoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion. With its lists of key works, rich cross-referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars.

Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable

Author : Sarah C Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317316819
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable written by Sarah C Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how literature and popular culture adopted the emerging language of physics to explain the unknown or ‘imponderable’.

Victorian Science and Imagery

Author : Nancy Rose Marshall
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987996
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Science and Imagery written by Nancy Rose Marshall and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human in the natural world. Just as scientists relied on graphic representation to conceptualize their ideas, artists moved seamlessly between scientific debate and creative expression to support or contradict popular scientific theories—such as Darwin’s theory of evolution and sexual selection—deliberately drawing on concepts in ways that allowed them to refute popular claims or disrupt conventional knowledges. Focusing on the close kinship between the arts and sciences during the Victorian period, the art historians contributing to this volume reveal the unique ways in which nineteenth-century British and American visual culture participated in making science, and in which science informed art at a crucial moment in the history of the development of the modern world. Together, they explore topics in geology, meteorology, medicine, anatomy, evolution, and zoology, as well as a range of media from photography to oil painting. They remind us that science and art are not tightly compartmentalized, separate influences. Rather, these are fields that share forms, manifest as waves, layers, lines, or geometries; that invest in the idea of the evolution of form; and that generate surprisingly kindred responses, such as pain, pleasure, empathy, and sympathy.

Canada's Victorian Oil Town

Author : Christina Burr
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773575901
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Canada's Victorian Oil Town written by Christina Burr and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-06-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Departing from traditional historiography focused on the economic role of resource development, Canada's Victorian Oil Town incorporates an understanding of the connections between science and technology, nation and imperialism, and cultural nuances of community-building. Burr looks at the cultural importance of place and how collective identity was nurtured in the community. She also illustrates how the image of Petrolia as Canada's Victorian Oil Town has been used since the 1970s to develop a thriving tourist industry in the region. Interdisciplinary in scope, Canada's Victorian Oil Town draws from the history of imperialism, science, resource development, local history, gender studies, and cultural geography.

Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater

Author : SarahGlendon Lyons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351577050
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater written by SarahGlendon Lyons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did literary aestheticism emerge in Victorian Britain, with its competing models of religious doubt and visions of secularisation? For Lyons, the aestheticism developed and progressively revised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) and Walter Pater (1839-1894) illuminates the contradictory impulses of modern secularism: on the one hand, a desire to cast itself as a form of neutrality or disinterestedness; on the other, a desire to affirm 'this world' as the place of human flourishing or even enchantment. The standard narrative of a 'crisis of faith' does not do justice to the fissured, uncertain quality of Victorian visions of secularisation. Precisely because it had the status of a confusing hypothesis rather than a self-evident reality, it provoked not only dread and melancholia, but also forms of fantasy. Within this context Lyons gives a fundamentally new account of the aims and nature of Victorian aestheticism, taking as a focus its deceptively simple claim that art is for art's sake first of all.

Jesus in the Victorian Novel

Author : Jessica Ann Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350278173
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Jesus in the Victorian Novel written by Jessica Ann Hughes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious faith appeared increasingly untenable. Re-workings of the canonical Gospels and other projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian faith. The novels of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Mary Augusta Ward, however, demonstrate that the work of bringing the Christian tradition of prophet, priest, and king into conversation with a rapidly changing world can at times be a form of authentic faith-even a faith that remains rooted in the Bible and historic Christianity, while simultaneously creating a space that allows traditional understandings of Jesus' identity to evolve.

Contemporary British Philosophy

Author : John Henry Muirhead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Philosophy written by John Henry Muirhead and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary British Philosophy

Author : J. H. Muirhead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317853067
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Philosophy written by J. H. Muirhead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume VII of twenty-two of a series on 20th Century Philosophy. Originally published 1925, in this is part two of three offering a collection personal statements by leading philosophical theorists-James Ward, E. Belfort Bax, G.E. Moore, Clement C.J. Webb, G. Dawes Hicks and others.

Contemporary British Philosophy

Author : J. H. Muirhead, J H
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415295550
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Philosophy written by J. H. Muirhead, J H and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians

Author : Jen Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131710465X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians written by Jen Harrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are we to make of the Victorians’ fascination with collecting? What effect did their encounters with the curious, exotic and downright odd have on Victorian writers and their works? The essays in this collection take up these questions by examining the phenomenon of bric-à-brac in Victorian literature. The contributors to Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities explore sites of unusual concurrence (including museums, the home, art galleries, private collections) and the way in which bric-à-brac brought the alien into everyday settings, the past into the present and the wild into the domestic. Focusing on the representation of material culture in Victorian literature, the essays in this volume seek out miscellaneous and incongruous objects that take readers beyond the commonplace paradigms associated with commodity culture. Individual chapters analyse the work of writers as different as Edward Lear and John Henry Newman, Robert Browning and George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll. In so doing they shed light on a dizzying array of topics and objects that include class and capitalism, the occult and the sacraments, Darwinism and dandyism, umbrellas, textiles, the Philosopher’s Stone and even the household nail.

Victorian Contingencies

Author : Tina Young Choi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503629767
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Contingencies written by Tina Young Choi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture

Author : Andrea Selleri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040012043
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture by : Andrea Selleri

Download or read book Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture written by Andrea Selleri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume collection of primary sources examines philosophy and literature in the nineteenth-century Britain. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of British Literature and Philosophy.

Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850

Author : Patrick Manning
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981483
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 written by Patrick Manning and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The century from 1750 to 1850 was a period of dramatic transformations in world history, fostering several types of revolutionary change beyond the political landscape. Independence movements in Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world were catalysts for radical economic, social, and cultural reform. And it was during this age of revolutions—an era of rapidly expanding scientific investigation—that profound changes in scientific knowledge and practice also took place. In this volume, an esteemed group of international historians examines key elements of science in societies across Spanish America, Europe, West Africa, India, and Asia as they overlapped each other increasingly. Chapters focus on the range of participants in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, their concentrated effort in description and taxonomy, and advances in techniques for sharing knowledge. Together, contributors highlight the role of scientific change and development in tightening global and imperial connections, encouraging a deeper conversation among historians of science and world historians and shedding new light on a pivotal moment in history for both fields.

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1860s

Author : Pamela K. Gilbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009063022
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1860s written by Pamela K. Gilbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an in-depth overview and reappraisal of the 1860s in British literature, this innovative volume features in-depth analyses from noted scholars at the tops of their fields. Covering characteristic literary genres of the 1860s (including sensation and lyric, as well as Golden Age children's literature), and topics of current and enduring interest in the field, from empire and slavery to evolution, environmental issues and economics, it incorporates drama as well as poetry and fiction, and emphasizes the history of publishing and periodicals so important to the period. Chapters are attentive to the global context, from Ireland on the stage, to Bengali literature, to Britain's muted response to the US Civil War. The Introduction gives an overview that places these individual chapters in the historical context of the 1860s, as well as the current scholarly conversation in the field.

An Imaginative Empiricist--Thomas Aiskew Larcom, (1801-1879) and Victorian Ireland

Author : Thomas Edward Jordan
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book An Imaginative Empiricist--Thomas Aiskew Larcom, (1801-1879) and Victorian Ireland written by Thomas Edward Jordan and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Aiskew Larcom was trained as a military surveyor, and rose to become Under-Secretary for Irish affairs in Dublin. He served in a variety of government posts from the Ordnance survey to Dublin Castle, and is a figure frequently encountered in the history of Ireland between the 1820s and 1860s. Larcom was assigned to the Board of Works in the famine years, his system prevailed in the evaluation and recording of the Irish Census of 1841, and he was on social terms with Dr. and Mrs. Wilde.