Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Experiment and the Art of Writing
- 1 The Art of Science: Nineteenth-Century Theory and the Logic of Practice
- 2 Learning by Experiment: T. H. Huxley and the Aesthetic Nature of Education
- 3 Following the Actors: G. H. Lewes’s and George Eliot’s Studies in Life
- 4 Steps Towards an Ecology of Experience: Empiricism, Pragmatism and George Eliot’s The Spanish Gypsy
- 5 Speech in Action: Victorian Philology and the Uprooting of Language
- 6 William Morris’s ‘Work-Pleasure’: Literature, Science and Fine Art
- 7 Robert Browning’s Experiment: Composition and Communication in The Ring and the Book
- 8 The Making of Sensation Fiction
- Clothing Matter: Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Experiment and the Art of Writing
- 1 The Art of Science: Nineteenth-Century Theory and the Logic of Practice
- 2 Learning by Experiment: T. H. Huxley and the Aesthetic Nature of Education
- 3 Following the Actors: G. H. Lewes’s and George Eliot’s Studies in Life
- 4 Steps Towards an Ecology of Experience: Empiricism, Pragmatism and George Eliot’s The Spanish Gypsy
- 5 Speech in Action: Victorian Philology and the Uprooting of Language
- 6 William Morris’s ‘Work-Pleasure’: Literature, Science and Fine Art
- 7 Robert Browning’s Experiment: Composition and Communication in The Ring and the Book
- 8 The Making of Sensation Fiction
- Clothing Matter: Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Artful ExperimentsWays of Knowing in Victorian Literature and Science, pp. 272 - 296Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2018