Useful knowledge: the Victorians, morality, and the march of intellect

Knowledge and the novel -- Food for thought : the dissemination of knowledge in the early nineteenth century -- Science in the popular novel : Jane Webb Loudon's The mummy! -- The monstrous body of knowledge : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Lessons learned in class : Charlotte Brontë'...

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Main Author: Rauch, Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2001
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Summary:Knowledge and the novel -- Food for thought : the dissemination of knowledge in the early nineteenth century -- Science in the popular novel : Jane Webb Loudon's The mummy! -- The monstrous body of knowledge : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Lessons learned in class : Charlotte Brontë's The professor -- The tailor transformed : Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke -- Destiny as an unmapped river : George Eliot's The mill on the floss
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-277) and index
Physical Description:x, 292 p ill 24 cm
ISBN:9780822383154
0822383152

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