Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884: The Novel, the Past and Cultural Memory in the Nineteenth CenturyMacmillan Education UK, 28 de jun. de 2007 - 293 páginas This authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period. Asking how the middle classes distinguished themselves from their forbears, Julian Wolfreys reads in detail major novels by: |
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... scientific discourse and the role of observation . In Chapter 38 , we read of ' the scientific gentleman ' and his observations . This scene again addresses the history of scientific discourse , empirical evidence , textual record , and ...
... scientific and philosophical knowledge being lampooned here to a number of matters . These concern the materiality of writing and , implicitly , its inherent untrustworthiness either as a technique for visualization or for bearing ...
... scientific gentlemen for whom meaning and identity , source and origin , are always undecidable . From observing lights in motion in the dark , the scientific gentle- man comes to ' see ' those flashes of fire , the phenomena resulting ...
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