Rauch Useful Knowledge

The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8315-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

A statement on how “knowledge” is socialized and assimilated by a culture, investigating popular and canonical fiction, early encyclopedias, and other popular efforts at mass education and knowledge dissemination.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rauch, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Knowledge and the Novel

1. Food for Thought: The Dissemination of Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth Century

2. Science in the Popular Novel: Jane Webb Loudon’s The Mummy!

3. The Monstrous Body of Knowledge: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

4. Lessons Learned in Class: Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor

5. The Tailor Transformed: Charles Kingsley’s Alton Locke

6. Destiny as an Unmapped River: George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Rauch is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.