{"product_id":"the-art-of-uncertainty-probable-realism-and-the-victorian-novel-hardback-9781009436113","title":"The Art of Uncertainty; Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel (Hardback) 9781009436113","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Art of Uncertainty\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eProbable Realism and the Victorian Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaniel Williams shows how, in a profoundly numerical age, Victorian novels imagined thought and action in the face of uncertainty.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDaniel Williams (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009436113, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e346 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.66 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The reader will find exceptionally careful and sensitive analyses of individual novels, as well as suggestive accounts of thematically-related philosophical and psychological problems that concerned the Victorian novelists on whom the book focuses.' Amanda Auerbach, Nineteenth-Century Contexts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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, hesitant judgment, and makeshift action, these novelists cultivated distinctive responses to uncertainty as intellectual concern and cultural disposition, participating in the knowledge work of an era shaped by numerical approaches to the future. Reading for uncertainty yields a rich account of the dynamics of thinking and acting, a fresh understanding of realism as a genre of the probable, and a vision of literary-critical judgment as provisional and open-ended. Daniel Williams spotlights the value of literary art in a present marked by models and technologies of prediction.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: The Bounds of Uncertainty\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Provisional Judgments: 1. Indecision Theory: Hesitation and Comparison in Eliot\u003cbr\u003e 2. Unproven Verdicts: Collins and Legal Uncertainty\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Probable Realisms: 3. Worlds Otherwise: Thackeray and the Counterfactual Imagination\u003cbr\u003e 4. Approximations: Serial and Composite Thinking in Hardy\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Outside Chance, or, the Afterlife of Uncertainty.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52509149069592,"sku":"9781009436113","price":72.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009436113i.jpg?v=1786494184","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-art-of-uncertainty-probable-realism-and-the-victorian-novel-hardback-9781009436113","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}