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- catalog abstract "One of the preoccupations of Victorian writers was the search for a philosophical replacement of romanticism. This book traces the course of that search. Peter Dale centers his analysis on positivism. In clear opposition to romanticism, positivism was militantly realistic and antiromantic. Its realism was based on observation of the structures of the natural world and on the scientific method that provided the way to understand those structures. Positivism became the dominant ideology of the later Victorian age; Dale argues that because of its influence on both practical and contemplative life, it was the true intellectual successor to romanticism. Dale approaches positivism through the important writings of George Henry Lewes, but extends his focus to include the effect of positivism on such writers as George Eliot, Leslie Stephen, Charles Darwin, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, and others, in an attempt to show an ongoing engagement between science and the imagination.".
- catalog contributor b2480265.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog created "c1989.".
- catalog date "1989".
- catalog date "c1989.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1989.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 289-329.".
- catalog description "One of the preoccupations of Victorian writers was the search for a philosophical replacement of romanticism. This book traces the course of that search. Peter Dale centers his analysis on positivism. In clear opposition to romanticism, positivism was militantly realistic and antiromantic. Its realism was based on observation of the structures of the natural world and on the scientific method that provided the way to understand those structures. Positivism became the dominant ideology of the later Victorian age; Dale argues that because of its influence on both practical and contemplative life, it was the true intellectual successor to romanticism. Dale approaches positivism through the important writings of George Henry Lewes, but extends his focus to include the effect of positivism on such writers as George Eliot, Leslie Stephen, Charles Darwin, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, and others, in an attempt to show an ongoing engagement between science and the imagination.".
- catalog description "Part One: Positivism and the art of thinking -- Modes of totality: romantic metaphysics and Victorian science -- An initial parting of the ways: Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on logical fictions -- Part Two: The prophetic center -- The biological structure of thought: G.H. Lewes' scientific realism -- A world wrapped in words: George Eliot and the irrecoverable language of nature -- A new theory of the symbol: the impact of Helmholtz and Darwin on Lewes' mature theory of mind -- From new physics to New Jerusalem: George Eliot's scientific pragmatism -- Part Three: The social determination of the self -- Beyond humanism: Leslie Stephen's scientific ethics -- Science and the comedic vision: Stephen's criticism and George Meredith's art -- Part Four: The alienation of mind -- Reversing the positivist oracle: the unvisionary company of Darwin, Maudsley, and Hardy -- "The best consummation possible": physical entropy in Hardy and Freud -- Conclusion: towards the new century.".
- catalog extent "ix, 338 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "In pursuit of a scientific culture.".
- catalog identifier "0299122603 :".
- catalog identifier "0299122646 (pbk.) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "In pursuit of a scientific culture.".
- catalog isPartOf "Science and literature".
- catalog issued "1989".
- catalog issued "c1989.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press,".
- catalog relation "In pursuit of a scientific culture.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.9/008 20".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and science Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PR468.S34 D35 1989".
- catalog subject "Positivism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Science Social aspects Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Science in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part One: Positivism and the art of thinking -- Modes of totality: romantic metaphysics and Victorian science -- An initial parting of the ways: Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on logical fictions -- Part Two: The prophetic center -- The biological structure of thought: G.H. Lewes' scientific realism -- A world wrapped in words: George Eliot and the irrecoverable language of nature -- A new theory of the symbol: the impact of Helmholtz and Darwin on Lewes' mature theory of mind -- From new physics to New Jerusalem: George Eliot's scientific pragmatism -- Part Three: The social determination of the self -- Beyond humanism: Leslie Stephen's scientific ethics -- Science and the comedic vision: Stephen's criticism and George Meredith's art -- Part Four: The alienation of mind -- Reversing the positivist oracle: the unvisionary company of Darwin, Maudsley, and Hardy -- "The best consummation possible": physical entropy in Hardy and Freud -- Conclusion: towards the new century.".
- catalog title "In pursuit of a scientific culture : science, art, and society in the Victorian age / Peter Allan Dale.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".