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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. '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.

Title Victorian contingencies : experiments in literature, science, and play / Tina Young Choi. [electronic resource]
Publisher Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
Creation Date [2022]
Notes Also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Anticipations of an unpredictable future : nineteenth-century life insurance and Babbage's calculating engines -- Past-tense futures : history and temporality rewritten in Lyell, Eliot, and Darwin -- Pivotal moments, diverging paths : visual narratives in board games, protean views, and Carroll's Alice books -- Two experiments in probabilistic thinking : Maxwell's "Demon" and Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- Epilogue : the pleasures of undetermined futures.
Series Stanford scholarship online
Extent 1 online resource
Language English
Copyright Date ©2022
National Library system number 997012635560305171
MARC RECORDS
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