Assessing Intelligence : The Bildungsroman and the Politics of Human Potential in England, 1860 1910
by
Sara Lyons
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
ISBN-10
1474497667
ISBN-13
9781474497664
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 30th, 2022
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
596 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.00 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Examines how novelists engaged with the emergence of the IQ concept of intelligence and the meritocratic ideal
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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