Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play Choi Tina Young
Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play Choi Tina Young Contingency is not just a feature of modern politics, finance, and culture--by thinking contingently,…
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Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play Choi Tina Young
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. 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 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.