Entropy in British Victorian Literature: A Scientific Analysis

Delve into the entropic nature of British Victorian Literature as Hannah Harris explores the concept of entropy in storytelling. Uncover how the lack of a defined center and the compulsion to repeat shape these works, validated by science as faithful reflections of life through realism.

• British Literature
• Victorian Era
• Entropy Analysis
• Literary Science
• Realism Study

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1. The Science of Art The Science of Art Faithfully Presented : Faithfully Presented : Entropy in British Victorian Literature Hannah Harris ENGL 491 Advisor: Dr. Eric Lorentzen

2. 01 01 Background Background

3. Entropy What? Why?

5. But tell us about But tell us about the books, the books, Hannah. Hannah.

7. The Big Idea The Big Idea POSITIVE Entropy POSITIVE Entropy NEGATIVE Entropy NEGATIVE Entropy Chaos Randomness Pieces Liberation Chance Order Steadiness Whole Confinement Fate

8. In order for literature to obey the laws of entropy, there must be some way to combat the negative entropy of writing a story.

9. Analysis of texts for entropic elements Lack of a definable center Compulsion to repeat around that center and revolution British Victorian Literature is entropic.

10. British Victorian Literature is entropic. So what? Labeling these works as realism is validated by science. Life is faithfully presented Modern life is also presented and continually reconstructed.

11. 02 02 Lack of a Lack of a Center Center

12. Deconstruction Deconstruction- - Derrida Derrida Lack of any definite meaning Definitions introduce more definitions and ambiguity

13. Bleak House Bleak House Charles Dickens Mr. Krook Miss Flite Richard

14. Bleak House Bleak House Charles Dickens ester

15. 03 03 Compulsion to Compulsion to Repeat & Revolution Repeat & Revolution

16. Greek lexical unit for entropy is rotation Call for revolution (Zamyatin)

17. Tess of the D'Urbervilles Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy

18. Tess of the DUrbervilles Tess of the D Urbervilles Thomas Hardy [Angel] wondered what obscure strain in the D'Urberville blood had led to this aberration if it were an aberration (385) - failure of rays to converge - synonyms: disorder, instability

19. 05 05 Conclusion Conclusion

20. Entropy calls us to: Entropy calls us to: - continue to deconstruct literature - view Victorian novels as realistic and exigent - accept the reality of the space in between of neutral tinted haps and such (Hardy)

21. References References Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Penguin Books, 2003. Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Penguin Books, 1997. Derrida, Jacques. Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences. New York: Columbia University Press. 1970. Hardy, Thomas. He Never Expected Much in Gibson, James.The Variorum Edition of the Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy., Palgrave Macmillan Springer, 1979, p. 886. Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D Urbervilles. Penguin Books, 2003. Zamyatin, Yevgeny. On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters. 1923. https://www.petra-winkler.de/uploads/essay%20evgenij%20Zamyatin.pdf

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