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Signs of the Material World
Dostoevsky, Science, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
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Melissa Frazier
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
Drawing on Dostoevsky’s relationship with science, Signs of the Material World explores the literary impacts of nineteenth-century materialism.
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Frazier Melissa :
Melissa Frazier is a professor of Russian language and Russian and comparative literature at Sarah Lawrence College.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Note on Citation
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Dostoevsky, Science, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
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1 Nineteenth-Century Materialisms
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2 Of Doctors and Detectives, Chemistry and Mathematics
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3 Bodies and Plots
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4 Metaphor and Allegory
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5 Social Physics
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Last Words and Open Endings
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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April 15, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781487560713
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234
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Keywords for this book
ninteenth century novel; literature and science; Dostoevsky and science; history and philosophy of science; mind/body sensation; dual-aspect monism; social utopianism; nineteenth-century literary analysis
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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
