Artful Experiments
Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain themWhat is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? Artful…
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Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain themWhat is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? Artful Experiments seeks to answer this question by approaching the field of literature and science in a way that is not so much centred on discourses of established knowledge as it is on practices of investigating what is no longer or not yet knowledge. The book assembles various modes of writing, from poetry and sensation fiction to natural history and philosophical debate, reading them as ways of knowing or structures in the making, rather than as containers of accomplished arguments or story worlds. Entwining innovative readings of the works of George Eliot, Robert Browning, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and William Morris, alongside in-depth studies