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The Science of Character
Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism
Taschenbuch von S. Pearl Brilmyer
Sprache: Englisch

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"In 1843, the Victorian political theorist John Stuart Mill outlined a new science, "the science of the formation of character." Although Mill's proposal failed as scientific practice, S. Pearl Brilmyer shows that it survived in the work of Victorian novelists, who cultivated a narrative science of human nature. Brilmyer explores this characterological project in the work of such novelists as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner. Bringing to life Mill's unrealized dream of a science of character, Victorian realists used fiction to investigate the nature of embodied experience, how traits and behaviors in human and nonhuman organisms emerge and develop, and how aesthetic features-shapes, colors, and gestures-come to take on cultural meaning through certain categories, such as race and sex. In the hands of these authors, Brilmyer argues, literature became a science, not in the sense that its claims were falsifiable or even systematically articulated, but in its commitment to uncovering, through a fictional staging of realistic events, the universal laws governing human life. The Science of Character offers brilliant insights into important novels of the period, including Eliot's Middlemarch, and a fuller picture of English realism during the crucial span between 1870 and 1920"--
"In 1843, the Victorian political theorist John Stuart Mill outlined a new science, "the science of the formation of character." Although Mill's proposal failed as scientific practice, S. Pearl Brilmyer shows that it survived in the work of Victorian novelists, who cultivated a narrative science of human nature. Brilmyer explores this characterological project in the work of such novelists as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner. Bringing to life Mill's unrealized dream of a science of character, Victorian realists used fiction to investigate the nature of embodied experience, how traits and behaviors in human and nonhuman organisms emerge and develop, and how aesthetic features-shapes, colors, and gestures-come to take on cultural meaning through certain categories, such as race and sex. In the hands of these authors, Brilmyer argues, literature became a science, not in the sense that its claims were falsifiable or even systematically articulated, but in its commitment to uncovering, through a fictional staging of realistic events, the universal laws governing human life. The Science of Character offers brilliant insights into important novels of the period, including Eliot's Middlemarch, and a fuller picture of English realism during the crucial span between 1870 and 1920"--
Über den Autor
S. Pearl Brilmyer is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226815787
ISBN-10: 0226815781
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Brilmyer, S. Pearl
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 347 x 325 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: S. Pearl Brilmyer
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.01.2022
Gewicht: 0,44 kg
Artikel-ID: 120259165
Über den Autor
S. Pearl Brilmyer is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226815787
ISBN-10: 0226815781
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Brilmyer, S. Pearl
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 347 x 325 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: S. Pearl Brilmyer
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.01.2022
Gewicht: 0,44 kg
Artikel-ID: 120259165
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