Philipp Erchinger

Artful Experiments

Ways of Knowing in Victorian Literature and Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 233mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781474438964
• ISBN-10: 1474438962
• Artikelnr.: 59510847

Autorenporträt

Philipp Erchinger is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. He has published a monograph on contingency and narrative form in Nashe, Sterne and Byron (Kontingenzformen) as well as articles on nineteenth century poetry and prose, literary theory and the writing of the arts and sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

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.