George Eliot And Nineteenth Century Science

Author : Sally Shuttleworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521335843
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science written by Sally Shuttleworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-03-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the ways in which George Eliot's involvement with contemporary scientific theory affected the evolution of her fiction. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Comte, Spencer, Lewes, Bain, Carpenter, von Hartmann and Bernard, Dr Shuttleworth shows how, as Eliot moved from Adam Bede to Daniel Deronda, her conception of a conservative, static and hierarchical model of society gave way to a more dynamic model of social and psychological life.

Author : Michael Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351934031
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology written by Michael Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subversive ways to propose a vision of mind as both fundamentally connected to the external world and radically isolated from and independent of that world. In showing the alignments between Eliot's work and the formulations of such key thinkers as Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, and G. H. Lewes, Davis reveals how Eliot responds both creatively and critically to contemporary theories of mind, as she explores such fundamental issues as the mind/body relationship, the mind in evolutionary theory, the significance of reason and emotion, and consciousness. Davis also points to important parallels between Eliot's work and new and future developments in psychology, particularly in the work of William James. In Middlemarch, for example, Eliot demonstrates more clearly than either Lewes or James the way the conscious self is shaped by language. Davis concludes by showing that the complexity of mind, which Eliot expresses through her imaginative use of scientific language, takes on a potentially theological significance. His book suggests a new trajectory for scholars exploring George Eliot's representations of the self in the context of science, society, and religious faith.

Author : Michael Dominic Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Unmapped Country written by Michael Dominic Davis and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clair Colby Olson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reflections of Nineteenth-century Scientific Thought in the Writings of George Eliot ... written by Clair Colby Olson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521783927
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Plots written by Gillian Beer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of highly acclaimed book examining Darwin's work in a literary/cultural context.

Author : Jonathan Smith
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299143541
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fact and Feeling written by Jonathan Smith and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering science as a form of cultural discourse like literature, music, and religion, explores the contacts and affinities between scientists and humanists in 19th-century Britain. The topics include Baconian induction, romantic methodologies of poetry and science, the uniformitarian imagination and The Voyage of the Beagle, John Ruskin, Edwin Abbot, and the quintessential Victorian merging of science and literature, Sherlock Holmes. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Laura Otis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191606162
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century written by Laura Otis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack of knowledge.' John Tyndall, 1874 Although we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century that division was not recognized. As the scientist John Tyndall pointed out, not only were science and literature both striving to better 'man's estate', they shared a common language and cultural heritage. The same subjects occupied the writing of scientists and novelists: the quest for 'origins', the nature of the relation between society and the individual, and what it meant to be human. This anthology brings together a generous selection of scientific and literary material to explore the exchanges and interactions between them. Fed by a common imagination, scientists and creative writers alike used stories, imagery, style, and structure to convey their meaning, and to produce work of enduring power. The anthology includes writing by Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin, Sir Humphry Davy, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Michael Faraday, Thomas Malthus, Louis Pasteur, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain and many others, and introductions and notes guide the reader through the topic's many strands. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Geoffrey Cantor
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262262187
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Serialized written by Geoffrey Cantor and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-03-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examining the ways in which the Victorian periodical press presented the scientific developments of the time to general and specialized audiences. Nineteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of periodical literature, with the publication of over 100,000 different magazines and newspapers for a growing market of eager readers. The Victorian periodical press became an important medium for the dissemination of scientific ideas. Every major scientific advance in the nineteenth century was trumpeted and analyzed in periodicals ranging from intellectual quarterlies such as the Edinburgh Review to popular weeklies like the Mirror of Literature, from religious periodicals such as the Evangelical Magazine to the atheistic Oracle of Reason. Scientific articles appeared side by side with the latest fiction or political reporting, while articles on nonscientific topics and serialized novels invoked scientific theories or used analogies drawn from science.The essays collected in Science Serialized examine the variety of ways in which the nineteenth-century periodical press represented science to both general and specialized readerships. They explore the role of scientific controversy in the press and the cultural politics of publication. Subject range from the presentation of botany in women's magazines to the highly public dispute between Darwin and Samuel Butler, and from discussions of the mind-body problem to those of energy physics. Contributors include leading scholars in the fields of history of science and literature: Ann B. Shteir, Jonathan Topham, Frank A. J. L. James, Roger Smith, Graeme Gooday, Crosbie Smith, Ian Higginson, Gillian Beer, Bernard Lightman, Helen Small, Gowan Dawson, Jonathan Smith, James G. Paradis, and Harriet Ritvo

Author : Janis McLarren Caldwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139456644
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Janis McLarren Caldwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although we have come to regard 'clinical' and 'romantic' as oppositional terms, romantic literature and clinical medicine were fed by the same cultural configurations. In the pre-Darwinian nineteenth century, writers and doctors developed an interpretive method that negotiated between literary and scientific knowledge of the natural world. Literary writers produced potent myths that juxtaposed the natural and the supernatural, often disturbing the conventional dualist hierarchy of spirit over flesh. Clinicians developed the two-part history and physical examination, weighing the patient's narrative against the evidence of the body. Examining fiction by Mary Shelley, Carlyle, the Brontës and George Eliot, alongside biomedical lectures, textbooks and articles, Janis McLarren Caldwell demonstrates the similar ways of reading employed by nineteenth-century doctors and imaginative writers and reveals the complexities and creative exchanges of the relationship between literature and medicine.

Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780710095053
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Plots written by Gillian Beer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: