Alan Rauch
Auteur de Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect
Œuvres de Alan Rauch
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The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (1827) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 63 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 20th century
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Études
- McGill University (BSc)
Southern Illinois University (MA|zoology)
Rutgers University (MA, PhD|English literature) - Professions
- university professor
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Critiques
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- Œuvres
- 3
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 49
- Popularité
- #320,875
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 7
The other five chapters examine the depictions of knowledge in five different nineteenth-century novels (not all Victorian, despite the subtitle): Jane Loudon's The Mummy!, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor, Charles Kingsely's Alton Locke, and George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss. I don't think a strong connection is forged between the first chapter and the other ones; I don't see how encyclopedism (for example) influences my understanding of The Mummy! (for example). What I also find a little frustrating is that the concept of "knowledge" is kind of diffuse-- most of the time, Rauch seems to use it to basically mean "science," but sometimes it's more broad, and so much so that it's hard to trace a strong trajectory through the book. I do think the analysis of The Mummy! takes the book a little too seriously at times, but on the other hand, I really enjoyed the analysis of Alton Locke. I haven't read it myself, but I do love a good discussion of Kingsley, religion, and science, and Rauch brings out the correspondences that Kinglsey saw between the transformation of species and spiritual transformation. I haven't read The Professor, but Rauch made it sound like something I ought to read, which is always a good thing, too.… (plus d'informations)