Artful Experiments: Ways of Knowing in Victorian Literature and Science

ISBN-13: 9781474438957 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str.

Philipp Erchinger

Opis

What is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? 'Artful Experiments' seeks to approach the field of literature and science in a way that is not so much centred on discourses of established knowledge as it is on practices of investigating what is no longer or not yet knowledge.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Experiment and the Art of Writing; 1. The Art of Science: Nineteenth Century Theory and the Logic of Practice; 2. Learning by Experiment: T. H. Huxley and the Aesthetic Nature of Education; 3. Following the Actors: G. H. Lewes’s and George Eliot’s Studies in Life; 4. Steps Towards an Ecology of Experience: Empiricism, Pragmatism, and George Eliot’s The Spanish Gypsy; 5. Speech in Action: Victorian Philology and the Uprooting of Language; 6. William Morris’s ‘Work Pleasure’: Literature, Science and Fine Art; 7. Robert Browning’s Experiment: Composition and Communication in The Ring and the Book; 8. The Making of Sensation Fiction; Clothing Matter: Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus; Bibliography; Index.