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Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: Victorian Contingencies: Experiments In Literature, Science, And Play ISBN13: 9781503629288 ISBN10: 1503629287 Author: Choi, Tina Young (Author) Description: 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 Binding: Hardcover, Hardcover Publisher: Stanford University Press Publication Date: 2021-12-14 Weight: 0 lbs Dimensions: Number of Pages: Language: English

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