... tentatively titled Falling: Revolutions in Science and Literature . Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic . By Molesworth Jesse . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . x + 275 pp. © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reviews Chance...

... been a major one, a vade mecum for a very important dimension of Shakespeare’s art. JOHN W. VELZ University of Texas Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England: A Study of the Relation- ships between Natural Science...

...Lauren M. E. Goodlad A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews . By Irene Tucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xiv + 311 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe. By David Porter. Stanford, Calif...

... Books. J o .K Eastern Illinois University H N I LC;OKE The Probable and the Maruelous: Blake, Wordsiuorth, and the Eigliteeiztti-Ceizt~~l~ Critical Tradition. By WALLACEJACKSON. Athens...

.... Mad Men belongs to a long line of naturalist narratives in which the outsider within (often a Jew or probable Jew) assimilates the myriad impacts of capitalist globalization and thus exemplifies the periodic resurgence of historical realism, which Georg Lukács predicted in The Historical Novel...

... English examples, for the long-term significance of the cultural debate between Ancients and Moderns across Europe. The Moderns argued for the possibility of historical change in literary standards; the Ancients, for the putatively unchanging models of the Greek and Roman classics. Probably the most...

... theorization of the novel in Shakespeare Illustrated begins by comparing the comedies to their largely Italian sources. Like Field- ing in Tom Jones, Lennox centers the elaboration and defense of the novel on “probabilityoIn the probable unfolding of the narrative (or “fablestory,” “action...

...Andrea Henderson Ultimately, then, this book not only marks points of connection between realist fiction and mathematical probability but shows that the Victorian novel actually developed “in tandem with” the hard sciences (166). Each spoke to the other: “The referential indistinction...

..., such as the huckleberry and the blackberry, are designated by loanblends : /hogelbi:r/ and /blcegbi:r/. The names of several varieties of corn have been modeled on the AmE words : /be:semwelSkarn/ “broom-corn”, /feldwelSkarn/ “field corn”, and /si:melSkarn/ “sweet corn”. Probably /so: dwelikarnl “seed corn...

... of a large and homogeneous group, and the study of individual writers. In the first category are the studies of all writers of medieval England or all Franciscans; and in the second, the biographies of the Dic- tionary of National Biography. Tanner probably has made the most effective use...

..., steward in charge of an army hospital at Nashville, Tennessee. Walt Whitman had made his acquaintance in Washington, probably at Campbell Hospital or at Army Square Hospital, which he visited most frequently. Letters I and I1 belong to Professor Emory Holloway; I11 is in the Berg Collection...

... of his brother’s return from Persia and within five days of the great Assize Sermon that he later considers to have begun the Ox- ford Movement. Here is an autobiographical passage that is apt to strike some readers (especially non-Catholic ones) as less “probable,” more likely to have...

... and Probability before Pascal . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press . Frénicle de Bessy Bernard . 1676 . Traité des triangles rectangles en nombres, dans lequel plusieurs belles propriétés de ces triangles sont démontrées par de nouveaux principes . Paris . Furetière Antoine...

... Byron Family Letters. In addition to a large number of letters, this packet contains five manuscript poems of which Byron might be the author, although some of them are unquestionably copies, probably made by Lady Byron and Augusta Leigh. Publication by Coleridge has authenticated Byron’s...

...- tains, must have been written in “the five-month period before the licensing date-December 5, 1579.” E. K.’s gloss, arguments, and epistle were probably composed “in the ten-week period before December 5,” while the woodcuts were “probably made in the three-week period before this date...

... direct literary influence. Explanations come readily to mind, the most probable being that the damning major reviews were out before the book had really had a chance to “take hold” except as a topic of conversation. But it is still odd that a work which stirred up such animated controversy...

... and common language to express the Zeitgeist in terms of what is called “Literature.”l In M.H.G. times there were certainly popular dialects, there was also probably a common language (at least at the courts or the Im- periaf Court). There were, however, a written language and a literary...

... cliff and an inward-sloping roof. Under beorges hrof (2755) unquestionably means “inside the cairn.” Reporting to Hygelac, Beowulf remembered the hand as being left on Hiorte (X)99), which might mean “beside Heorot” (cf. on heorbe), “on top of Heorot” (6.ofer hrof), but probably means...

... University Press . Molesworth Jesse . 2010 . Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Moretti Franco . 2000 . The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture . London : Verso . Puskar Jason...

... summary” ; see Magnhs bnsson, Gudmundar saga djra, in fslenzk FraetSi, No. 8 (R’vik, 1940)’ pp. 45-4 b. R. George Thomas 285 ing the main facts. On this basis many sagas could have been, and probably were, written, and many of the schedae were probably...