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...Adam Grener This essay examines the pervasive language of chance in Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn (1869) and argues that the novel's competing models of probability reveal tensions in the bildungsroman form. Although Phineas's advancement has been read as demonstrating Trollope's investment...

... Thomas Hardy novel repetition logic probability genre conventions Works Cited Bassett Troy J. 2016 . At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901 . Victorian Research Web . www.victorianresearch.org/atcl . Bayley John . 1978 . An Essay on Hardy...

... and ignited rancorous debate over the human, material, and environmental costs of the East Indian trade. Without superfluxes of maritime and mercantile labor and vigorous management of public relations in England, the cash-poor EIC probably would not have survived its first generation. © 2015 by University...

...” in several of the contributions to this special issue and suggests that this work might be expanded by connecting the contributors' accounts of belief and narrative in the Victorian era to the long, complex history of Bayesian approaches to probability. Mitchell illuminates the second strategy by expanding...

... Simon . (1985) 2011 . Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Citations refer to the 2011 edition . Shapiro Barbara J. 1991 . “Beyond Reasonable Doubt” and “Probable Cause”: Historical Perspectives...

... . Soul and Form . Cambridge : MIT Press , 1974 . Musil Robert . The Man Without Qualities . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1995 . Newsom Robert A Likely Story: Probability and Play in Fiction . New Brunswick : Rutgers UP , 1988 . Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989...

... they see are so severely punish d, in the Persons of others. If recent literary scholars have found this traditional account unsatisfying (e.g., Griffin 1994: 38 39; Greenberg 2019: 16), it is probably because it is not true: a cursory review of the history of satire indicates that satirists do...

... or she will probably not conclude that the NYPD are, as far as black residents of New York are concerned, a tool of oppression, analogous to an occupying army. The detective s framework is unlikely to be able to accommo- date a left- radical interpretation of any given botched interrogation or wrongful...

... themevents ) are separated by dilated periods of relative stasis (Eldridge and Gould 1972). Rather than imagining biological stability between hinge events, Eliot presents a picture of how such an event can build to inevitability over time, moving from possible to probable to necessary...

... whether he had a particular text of Barthes' in mind. Would it be S/Z, which is probably the richest of his texts, though more widely dipped into than read cover to cover? Or perhaps that slim declaration of a hedonistic poststructuralism, Le Plaisir du textel This certainly has its attrac- tions...

... culture, Bugs Bunny probably being the most famous example. Tricksters operate by guile: they use tricks rather than strength to get their aims. But they not only play tricks; they are also frequently the victim of tricks. They are generally amoral, and have great appetites for food, drink...

... fact is the index of a form of thought (where a “form of thought” would seem to be a widely shared act of cognition). Bally notes that “were one to account in the first place for the manner in which free indirect discourse is thought, and then to look into how it is expressed, it is probable that its...

... as a reservoir of narcissistic supply to the colossus. Appropriately (in light of the events of 9/11, certainly, and probably before that) it is to the World Trade Center that Michel de Certeau pointed when he wanted to describe the ideological imposition that such a gaze exerts over the inhabitants...

... in rebutting the reductivist program. Today the academic field in which the reductivist sentiment has the strongest standing is probably molecular biology. Hence it is hardly an accident that, in the key second chapter of the book, Schleifer picks the renowned biologist E. O. Wilson to serve...

...) to Gosta Esping-­ Anderson (2011), are making the same point, as this is now happening in some European countries with an enlargement of the market sector of services. Starting in the mid-­eighties there was a macroscopic restructuring of repro- ductive labor at the global level. It was probably...

... as the "Arnolfini Wedding". Their discovery that the famous pregnancy was most probably a phantom—an illusion created by the style and carriage of the dress— has not prevented further theorising on the painting, nor has it exhausted its enigmas. If Blow Job's interest evaporates just because the 'truth...

... as the "Arnolfini Wedding". Their discovery that the famous pregnancy was most probably a phantom—an illusion created by the style and carriage of the dress— has not prevented further theorising on the painting, nor has it exhausted its enigmas. If Blow Job's interest evaporates just because the 'truth...

... always interesting, and sometimes informative or bizarre enough to give a reader a moment's pause. (Dylan threw up on John Lennon, for instance, and Joan Baez was self-conscious about her small breast size.) But, despite Hajdu's 25 years of research, probably much of what this book has to tell...

..., and sometimes informative or bizarre enough to give a reader a moment's pause. (Dylan threw up on John Lennon, for instance, and Joan Baez was self-conscious about her small breast size.) But, despite Hajdu's 25 years of research, probably much of what this book has to tell is known already to serious...

... informative or bizarre enough to give a reader a moment's pause. (Dylan threw up on John Lennon, for instance, and Joan Baez was self-conscious about her small breast size.) But, despite Hajdu's 25 years of research, probably much of what this book has to tell is known already to serious devotees...