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Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth
century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited
collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary
reform. An extensive general introduction sets the material in
context and extends the debate to provide a contemporary
international perspective.
Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth
century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited
collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary
reform. An extensive general introduction sets the material in
context and extends the debate to provide a contemporary
international perspective.
Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth
century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited
collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary
reform. An extensive general introduction sets the material in
context and extends the debate to provide a contemporary
international perspective.
Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth
century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited
collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary
reform. An extensive general introduction sets the material in
context and extends the debate to provide a contemporary
international perspective.
Contingency is not just a feature of modern politics, finance, and
culture—by thinking contingently, nineteenth-century Britons
rewrote familiar narratives and upended forgone conclusions.
Victorian Contingencies shows how scientists, novelists, and
consumers engaged in new formal and material experiments with cause
and effect, past and present, that actively undermined routine
certainties. Tina Young Choi traces contingency across a wide range
of materials and media, from newspaper advertisements and
children's stories to well-known novels, scientific discoveries,
technological innovations. She shows how Charles Lyell and Charles
Darwin reinvented geological and natural histories as spaces for
temporal and causal experimentation, while the nascent insurance
industry influenced Charles Babbage's computational designs for a
machine capable of responding to a contingent future. Choi pairs
novelists George Eliot and Lewis Carroll with physicist James Clerk
Maxwell, demonstrating how they introduced possibility and
probability into once-assured literary and scientific narratives.
And she explores the popular board games and pre-cinematic visual
entertainments that encouraged Victorians to navigate a world made
newly uncertain. By locating contingency within these cultural
contexts, this book invites a deep and multidisciplinary
reassessment of the longer histories of causality, closure, and
chance.
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