The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel

by Daniel Williams

The Victorian novel developed unique forms of reasoning under uncertainty-of thinking, judging, and acting in the face of partial knowledge and unclear outcome. George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, William Thackeray, Thomas Hardy, and later Joseph Conrad drew on science, mathematics, philosophy, and the law to articulate a phenomenology of uncertainty against emergent models of prediction and decision-making. In imaginative explorations of unsure reasoning,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009436112
• ISBN13: 9781009436113
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"