Daniel Williams

The Art of Uncertainty

Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2024
• ISBN-13: 9781009436113
• ISBN-10: 1009436112
• Artikelnr.: 69229544

Autorenporträt

Daniel Williams is Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College. He was previously a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. His research focuses on British and South African literature, scientific and intellectual history, and the environmental humanities. He is co-editor of a special issue of Poetics Today on 'Logic and Literary Form' (2020), and a section editor for Literature Compass.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Bounds of Uncertainty
Part I. Provisional Judgments: 1. Indecision Theory: Hesitation and Comparison in Eliot
2. Unproven Verdicts: Collins and Legal Uncertainty
Part II. Probable Realisms: 3. Worlds Otherwise: Thackeray and the Counterfactual Imagination
4. Approximations: Serial and Composite Thinking in Hardy
Coda: Outside Chance, or, the Afterlife of Uncertainty.