Assessing Intelligence : The Bildungsroman and the Politics of Human Potential in England, 1860–1910
by
Sara Lyons
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
ISBN-10
1474497675
ISBN-13
9781474497671
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 15th, 2024
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.80 x 1.80 cms
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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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