Daniel Williams

Art of Uncertainty (eBook, ePUB)

Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009436144
• Artikelnr.: 70913933

Autorenporträt

Daniel Williams is Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College. He was previously a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. His research focuses on British and South African literature, scientific and intellectual history, and the environmental humanities. He is co-editor of a special issue of Poetics Today on 'Logic and Literary Form' (2020), and a section editor for Literature Compass.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Bounds of Uncertainty
Part I. Provisional Judgments: 1. Indecision Theory: Hesitation and Comparison in Eliot
2. Unproven Verdicts: Collins and Legal Uncertainty
Part II. Probable Realisms: 3. Worlds Otherwise: Thackeray and the Counterfactual Imagination
4. Approximations: Serial and Composite Thinking in Hardy
Coda: Outside Chance, or, the Afterlife of Uncertainty.