The physics of possibility : Victorian fiction, science, and gender / Michael Tondre.

Author: Tondre, Michael, author.

ImprintCharlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2018.

Imprint2018

Descriptionix, 230 pages ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: developmental logics -- The lost futures of the novel: negated potential in Richard Feverel -- "The interval of expectation": Armadale and the history of the present -- "A nat'ral born friend": the evolution of community in Dombey and Son -- George Eliot's "Fine excess": Middlemarch, energy, and incalculable diffusion -- Conclusion: "The varying experiments of time".

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-218) and index.

Note:"This book charts the discovery of probability and chance in Victorian science and its influence on the literature and culture of the period." -- Provided by publisher

Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries.

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