Sara Lyons

Assessing Intelligence: The Bildungsroman and the Politics of Human Potential in England, 1860–1910

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ISBN: 9781474497664
Autorius : Sara Lyons
Leidimo metai: 2022
Leidėjas: EUP
Puslapių skaičius: 296
Leidinio kalba: Anglų
Formatas: Kieti viršeliai
Formatas: 234×156
Aprašymas
How did Victorian novelists engage with the new theories of human intelligence that emerged from late nineteenth-century psychology and evolutionary science? Assessing Intelligence traces the genealogy of the modern concept of IQ. It examines how five writers – George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, HG Wells and Virginia Woolf – used the bildungsroman, or the novel of education, to wrestle with the moral and political implications of the IQ model of intelligence and the fantasies of meritocracy it provoked. Drawing upon the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière, Sara Lyons argues that Victorian and Edwardian novelists were by turns complicit in the biopolitics of intelligence and sought radical ways to affirm the equality of minds.

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