Art of uncertainty, the: probable realism and the victorian novel
Auteur :
Williams, Daniel
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009436113
Date de publication :
7 mars 2024
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,8 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
660 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Daniel Williams reveals how George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, William Thackeray, Thomas Hardy, and Joseph Conrad drew on science, mathematics, philosophy, and the law to cultivate responses to uncertainty as intellectual and cultural concern, and how they both participated in and resisted the ideas of a profoundly numerical age.