Victorian contingencies, experiments in literature, science, and play, Tina Young Choi
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Victorian contingencies, experiments in literature, science, and play, Tina Young Choi
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
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Victorian contingencies
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electronic resource
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1238131337
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Tina Young Choi
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De Gruyter eBooks
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experiments in literature, science, and play
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Anticipations of an unpredictable future : nineteenth-century life insurance and Babbage's calculating engines -- Past-tense futures : history and temporality rewritten in Lyell, Eliot, and Darwin -- Pivotal moments, diverging paths : visual narratives in board games, protean views, and Carroll's Alice books -- Two experiments in probabilistic thinking : Maxwell's "Demon" and Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- Epilogue : the pleasures of undetermined futures
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