{"product_id":"useful-knowledge-9780822326687","title":"Useful Knowledge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents a social, cultural, and literary history of this knowledge industry and traces its relationships within 19th-century literature, ending with its eventual confrontation with Charles Darwin's \"Origin of Species\". This book touches on social and cultural anxieties that offer both historical and contemporary insights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUseful Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e can stand as a model of informed and scrupulous historicism. The breadth of Rauch’s acquaintance with subliterary and paraliterary texts is truly impressive as he clearly lays out what was at stake for nineteenth-century intellectuals and usefully relates their preoccupations with those that concern us now, as we experience another information revolution.”—Harriet Ritvo, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A welcome addition to humanistic analyses of science-in-culture. Rauch deftly blends science, history, and literature—novels, speculative fiction, encyclopedias—to explore cultural attitudes to the challenges of new knowledge during the Information Age of the early nineteenth century.”—Ann B. Shteir, York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Knowledge and the Novel \u003cbr\u003e 1. Food for Thought: The Dissemination of Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth Century \u003cbr\u003e 2. Science in the Popular Novel: Jane Webb Loudon’s \u003ci\u003eThe Mummy!\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3. The Monstrous Body of Knowledge: Mary Shelley’s \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4. Lessons Learned in Class: Charlotte Brontë’s \u003ci\u003eThe Professor\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5. The Tailor Transformed: Charles Kingsley’s \u003ci\u003eAlton Locke\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6. Destiny as an Unmapped River: George Eliot’s \u003ci\u003eThe Mill on the Floss\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406027137367,"sku":"9780822326687","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822326687.jpg?v=1730494290","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/useful-knowledge-9780822326687","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}