The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism Brilmyer S. Pearl
The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms.In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John…
Specifikacia The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism Brilmyer S. Pearl
The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms.In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new science, "the science of the formation of character." Although Mill's proposal failed as scientific practice, S. Pearl Brilmyer maintains that it found its true home in realist fiction of the period, which employed the literary figure of character to investigate the nature of embodied experience. Bringing to life Mill's unrealized dream of a science of character, novelists such as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner turned to narrative to explore how traits and behaviors in organisms emerge and develop, and how aesthetic features--shapes, colors, and gestures--come to take on cultural meaning through certain
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