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How did Victorian novelists engage with the new theories of human intelligence that emerged from late nineteenth-century psychology and evolutionary science? Assessing Intelligence traces the genealogy of the modern concept of IQ. It examines how five writers George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, HG Wells and Virginia Woolf used the bildungsroman, or the novel of education, to wrestle with the moral and political implications of the IQ model of intelligence and the fantasies of meritocracy it provoked. Drawing upon the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Ranciere, Sara Lyons argues...

How did literary aestheticism emerge in Victorian Britain, with its competing models of religious doubt and visions of secularization? 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...

When Grace and Max Lyons spot a "baby chick" about to drown, they leap into action to rescue the little guy. The ensuing chaos opens their eyes to adventure and causes them to see how ordinary kids become everyday heroes. Pip so impacted the Lyons they decided to publish his story. His scaredy-cat antics will delight the youngest of readers, while the hearts of his young rescuers will encourage kids of all ages to make a difference in the world around them. Because they believe every child can become an everyday hero, the Lyons established a website where readers will be challenged and...