The first book-length study to provide a detailed examination of a distinctive crossroads in the history of the left Intro; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Experiment and the Art of Writing; Chapter 1 The Art of Science:...
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The first book-length study to provide a detailed examination of a distinctive crossroads in the history of the left Intro; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Experiment and the Art of Writing; Chapter 1 The Art of Science: Nineteenth-Century Theory and the Logic of Practice; Chapter 2 Learning by Experiment: T. H. Huxley and the Aesthetic Nature of Education; Chapter 3 Following the Actors: G. H. Lewes's and George Eliot's Studies in Life; Chapter 4 Steps Towards an Ecology of Experience: Empiricism, Pragmatism and George Eliot's The Spanish Gypsy; Chapter 5 Speech in Action: Victorian Philology and the Uprooting of Language Chapter 6 William Morris's 'Work-Pleasure': Literature, Science and Fine ArtChapter 7 Robert Browning's Experiment: Composition and Communication in The Ring and the Book; Chapter 8 The Making of Sensation Fiction; Clothing Matter: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus; Bibliography; Index. - The first book-length study to provide a detailed examination of a distinctive crossroads in the history of the left
