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The Science Of Art “Faithfully Presented”: Entropy In British Victorian Literature, Hannah Harris
The Science Of Art “Faithfully Presented”: Entropy In British Victorian Literature, Hannah Harris
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In the chemical world, entropy, or the randomness and chaos of a system, must continually increase; it is much more favorable for things to fall apart than to be put together. This scientific concept can also be rightly applied to the study of literature. While it is true books contain information put together into some sense of order from chaos, making them counterintuitive to entropy, I am convinced these works must still obey the laws of thermodynamics. There must be an increase in chaos somewhere, and if it is not within the words themselves, it must lie within the ideas …
Ann Yearsley, "Earl Goodwin", And The Politics Of Romantic Discontent, Chris Foss
Ann Yearsley, "Earl Goodwin", And The Politics Of Romantic Discontent, Chris Foss
English, Linguistics, and Communication (Legacy)
There is a dearth of more substantial critical studies on Ann Yearsley’s tragic drama Earl Goodwin in general, and while the few out there have helpfully illuminated the play’s representation of the historical plight of women and the poor during Anglo-Saxon times, as well as its application to their current predicaments in Romantic-era England and France, they have tended to leave unexplored the ways in which Yearsley simultaneously is clarifying and extending her anger at and frustration with the class- and gender-based discrimination she experienced firsthand in the fallout with her mentor Hannah More over the profits from her first …