Artful Experiments : : Ways of Knowing in Victorian Literature and Science / / Philipp Erchinger.
Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain themExemplifies and expounds an approach to Victorian writing, drawn from practice theory (Pickering, Latour, de Certeau, Schatzki) and social anthropology (Ingold), that is centre...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Experiment and the Art of Writing
- Chapter 1 The Art of Science: Nineteenth- Century Theory and the Logic of Practice
- Chapter 2 Learning by Experiment: T. H. Huxley and the Aesthetic Nature of Education
- Chapter 3 Following the Actors: G. H. Lewes’s and George Eliot’s Studies in Life
- Chapter 4 Steps Towards an Ecology of Experience: Empiricism, Pragmatism and George Eliot’s The Spanish Gypsy
- Chapter 5 Speech in Action: Victorian Philology and the Uprooting of Language
- Chapter 6 William Morris’s ‘Work-Pleasure’: Literature, Science and Fine Art
- Chapter 7 Robert Browning’s Experiment: Composition and Communication in The Ring and the Book
- Chapter 8 The Making of Sensation Fiction
- Clothing Matter: Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
- Bibliography
- Index