Victorian contingencies :: experiments in literature, science, and play /
"Contingency is not just a feature of modern politics, finance, and culture-by thinking contingently, nineteenth-century Britons rewrote familiar narratives and upended forgone conclusions. Victorian Contingencies shows how scientists, novelists, and consumers engaged in new formal and material...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Contingency is not just a feature of modern politics, finance, and culture-by thinking contingently, nineteenth-century Britons rewrote familiar narratives and upended forgone conclusions. Victorian Contingencies shows how scientists, novelists, and consumers engaged in new formal and material experiments with cause and effect, past and present, that actively undermined routine certainties. Tina Young Choi traces contingency across a wide range of materials and media, from newspaper advertisements and children's stories to well-known novels, scientific discoveries, technological innovations. She shows how Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin reinvented geological and natural histories as spaces for temporal and causal experimentation, while the nascent insurance industry influenced Charles Babbage's computational designs for a machine capable of responding to a contingent future. Choi pairs novelists George Eliot and Lewis Carroll with physicist James Clerk Maxwell, demonstrating how they introduced possibility and probability into once-assured literary and scientific narratives. And she explores the popular board games and pre-cinematic visual entertainments that encouraged Victorians to navigate a world made newly uncertain. By locating contingency within these cultural contexts, this book invites a deep and multidisciplinary reassessment of the longer histories of causality, closure, and chance"-- |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| spelling | Choi, Tina Young, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004124876 Victorian contingencies : experiments in literature, science, and play / Tina Young Choi. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022] 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Anticipations of an unpredictable future : nineteenth-century life insurance and Babbage's calculating engines -- Past-tense futures : history and temporality rewritten in Lyell, Eliot, and Darwin -- Pivotal moments, diverging paths : visual narratives in board games, protean views, and Carroll's Alice books -- Two experiments in probabilistic thinking : Maxwell's "Demon" and Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- Epilogue : the pleasures of undetermined futures. "Contingency is not just a feature of modern politics, finance, and culture-by thinking contingently, nineteenth-century Britons rewrote familiar narratives and upended forgone conclusions. Victorian Contingencies shows how scientists, novelists, and consumers engaged in new formal and material experiments with cause and effect, past and present, that actively undermined routine certainties. Tina Young Choi traces contingency across a wide range of materials and media, from newspaper advertisements and children's stories to well-known novels, scientific discoveries, technological innovations. She shows how Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin reinvented geological and natural histories as spaces for temporal and causal experimentation, while the nascent insurance industry influenced Charles Babbage's computational designs for a machine capable of responding to a contingent future. Choi pairs novelists George Eliot and Lewis Carroll with physicist James Clerk Maxwell, demonstrating how they introduced possibility and probability into once-assured literary and scientific narratives. And she explores the popular board games and pre-cinematic visual entertainments that encouraged Victorians to navigate a world made newly uncertain. By locating contingency within these cultural contexts, this book invites a deep and multidisciplinary reassessment of the longer histories of causality, closure, and chance"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2022). English literature 19th century History and criticism. Science Great Britain History 19th century. Amusements Great Britain History 19th century. Great Britain Civilization 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056625 Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056952 Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique. Sciences Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle. Grande-Bretagne Civilisation 19e siècle. Grande-Bretagne Murs et coutumes 19e siècle. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Amusements fast Civilization fast English literature fast Manners and customs fast Science fast Great Britain fast 1800-1899 fast Charles Babbage. George Eliot. James Clerk Maxwell. Lewis Carroll. causality. chance. games. narrative. probability. statistics. Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast History fast has work: Victorian contingencies (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGqYRQtJBqCwP49pfTfg8C https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Choi, Tina Young. Victorian contingencies Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022] 9781503629288 (DLC) 2021007876 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3095888 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Choi, Tina Young Victorian contingencies : experiments in literature, science, and play / Anticipations of an unpredictable future : nineteenth-century life insurance and Babbage's calculating engines -- Past-tense futures : history and temporality rewritten in Lyell, Eliot, and Darwin -- Pivotal moments, diverging paths : visual narratives in board games, protean views, and Carroll's Alice books -- Two experiments in probabilistic thinking : Maxwell's "Demon" and Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- Epilogue : the pleasures of undetermined futures. English literature 19th century History and criticism. Science Great Britain History 19th century. Amusements Great Britain History 19th century. Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique. Sciences Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Amusements fast Civilization fast English literature fast Manners and customs fast Science fast |
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| title_full | Victorian contingencies : experiments in literature, science, and play / Tina Young Choi. |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Victorian contingencies : experiments in literature, science, and play / Tina Young Choi. |
| title_short | Victorian contingencies : |
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| topic | English literature 19th century History and criticism. Science Great Britain History 19th century. Amusements Great Britain History 19th century. Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique. Sciences Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Amusements fast Civilization fast English literature fast Manners and customs fast Science fast |
| topic_facet | English literature 19th century History and criticism. Science Great Britain History 19th century. Amusements Great Britain History 19th century. Great Britain Civilization 19th century. Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century. Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique. Sciences Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle. Grande-Bretagne Civilisation 19e siècle. Grande-Bretagne Murs et coutumes 19e siècle. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Amusements Civilization English literature Manners and customs Science Great Britain Criticism, interpretation, etc. History |
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