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Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time

By: Andrew Radford

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Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time

By: Andrew Radford

A systematic exploration of Thomas Hardy's imaginative assimilation of particular Victorian sciences, this study draws on and swells the widening current of scholarly attention now being paid to the cultural meanings compacted and released by the nascent 'sciences of man' in the nineteenth century. Andrew Radford here situates Hardy's fiction and poetry in a context of the new sciences of humankind that evolved during the Victorian age to accommodate an immense range of literal and figurative 'excavations' then taking place. Combining literary close readings with broad historical analyses, he explores Hardy's artistic response to geological, archaeological and anthropological findings. In particular, he analyzes Hardy's lifelong fascination with the doctrine of 'survivals,' a term coined by E.B. Tylor in Primitive Culture (1871) to denote customs, beliefs and practices persisting in isolation from their original cultural context. Radford reveals how Hardy's subtle reworking of Tylor's doctrine offers a valuable insight into the inter-penetration of science and literature during this period. An important aspect of Radford's research focuses on lesser known periodical literature that grew out of a British amateur antiquarian tradition of the nineteenth century. His readings of Hardy's literary notebooks disclose the degree to which Hardy's own considerable scientific knowledge was shaped by the middlebrow periodical press. Thus Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time raises questions not only about the reception of scientific ideas but also the creation of nonspecialist forms of scientific discourse. This book represents a genuinely new perspective for Hardy studies.

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Routledge

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1351879340

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9781351879347

Byron and the Victorians

By: Andrew Elfenbein

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Byron and the Victorians

By: Andrew Elfenbein

This is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Bronte, Tennyson, Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde. Rather than treating influence in terms of source study or of intersubjective struggle, it demonstrates how institutions of cultural production mediate the access that later writers have to earlier ones."--BOOK JACKET.

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310

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Cambridge University Press

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0521454522

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9780521454520

Category Theory 1991: Proceedings of the 1991 Summer Category Theory Meeting, Montreal, Canada

Proceedings of an International Summer Category Theory Meeting, Held June 23-30, 1991

By: Robert Andrew George Seely

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Category Theory 1991: Proceedings of the 1991 Summer Category Theory Meeting, Montreal, Canada

Proceedings of an International Summer Category Theory Meeting, Held June 23-30, 1991

By: Robert Andrew George Seely

Representing this diversity of the field, this book contains the proceedings of an international conference on category theory. The subjects covered here range from topology and geometry to logic and theoretical computer science, from homotopy to braids and conformal field theory. Although generally aimed at experts in the various fields represented, the book will also provide an excellent opportunity for nonexperts to get a feel for the diversity of current applications of category theory.

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462

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821860186

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9780821860182

Victorian Sensation Fiction

By: Andrew Radford

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Victorian Sensation Fiction

By: Andrew Radford

A concise and lucid overview of the key criticism -- from early reviews to twenty-first commentaries -- surrounding the popular genre of Victorian "sensation" fiction.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0230524885

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9780230524880

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Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time

Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time

Byron and the Victorians

Byron and the Victorians

Category Theory 1991: Proceedings of the 1991 Summer Category Theory Meeting, Montreal, Canada

Category Theory 1991: Proceedings of the 1991 Summer Category Theory Meeting, Montreal, Canada

Victorian Sensation Fiction

Victorian Sensation Fiction

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