Alan Rauch

Useful Knowledge

The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""Useful Knowledge" can stand as a model of informed and scrupulous historicism. The breadth of Rauch's acquaintance with subliterary and paraliterary texts is truly impressive as he clearly lays out what was at stake for nineteenth-century intellectuals and usefully relates their preoccupations with those that concern us now, as we experience another information revolution."--Harriet Ritvo, author of "The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination "

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 767g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326632
• ISBN-10: 0822326639
• Artikelnr.: 42989727

Autorenporträt

Alan Rauch is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Knowledge and the Novel
1. Food for Thought: The Dissemination of Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth
Century
2. Science in the Popular Novel: Jane Webb Loudon’s The Mummy!
3. The Monstrous Body of Knowledge: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
4. Lessons Learned in Class: Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor
5. The Tailor Transformed: Charles Kingsley’s Alton Locke
6. Destiny as an Unmapped River: George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss
Notes
Bibliography
Index