Andrea Henderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Henderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Henderson |
| SIGNATURE | HENDERSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Victorian Equations
As familiar as the form of the mathematical equation is to us, the ostensibly simple act of equating unlike things was an achievement many centuries in the making, and one that would ultimately redefine European mathematical enquiry such that its bias toward geometry and the concrete would be displaced by a bias toward algebraic abstraction. The moment of that displacement was the nineteenth century, and its broader significance is on particularl…
Atomic Individuals
Victorian chemistry and Victorian political theory are both constructed around a foundational analytic unit: for the former, it is the atom, and for the latter, the individual. Because the latter construct was actually the more robust of the two, Victorian chemists used the resources of art and literature to lend individuality to atoms, while literary writers used chemistry to suggest that the category of the individual might be no more than a fi…
Afterword
This essay reminds readers of the nineteenth-century origins of the disciplinary divide between scientific, formal-theoretical knowledge on the one hand and particularizing, creaturely knowledge on the other, arguing that we literary critics have tended to reify this divide even when we have sought to be more "scientific" in our methods. Logic falls on the far side of this divide; because we typically regard it as a consummately scientific and fo…
Algebraic Art
Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation, witnessing the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the revaluation of symbolic algebra, and the importation of mathematical language into philosophy. All these innovations sprang from a recon…
Analogy
Analogy was a crucial conceptual tool for Victorian natural philosophers, who regarded the physical world less in terms of material bodies than formal relationships. Thus, even as they aimed for verisimilitude in their theoretical models, James Clerk Maxwell and Michael Faraday used analogical figures freely, for they understood nature itself to be structured around analogical relations. Like Maxwell, Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote an undergrad…
Symbolic Logic and the Logic of Symbolism
Magic Mirrors
This essay argues that British photography of the 1850s and '60s wedded realism-understood as a commitment to descriptive truthfulness-with formalism, or a belief in the defining power of structural relationships. Photographers at midcentury understood the realistic character of photography to be grounded in more than fidelity to detail; the technical properties of the medium accorded perfectly with the claims of contemporary physicists that real…
"Revolution, Response, and "Christabel
Death on the Stage, Death of the Stage
As Frank Whigham puts it, most readings of The Duchess of Malfi apply two categories of analysis: psychological inquiry ... and moral evaluation.2 Whigham asks prior questions--why are these characters here at all?--in an effort to understand the play in terms of its historical social context. By asking a prior question of another sort--why does this play represent theatricality the way it does?-we can better understand the play both in terms of …
"Revolution, Response, and "Christabel
Death on the Stage, Death of the Stage
As Frank Whigham puts it, most readings of The Duchess of Malfi apply two categories of analysis: psychological inquiry ... and moral evaluation.2 Whigham asks prior questions--why are these characters here at all?--in an effort to understand the play in terms of its historical social context. By asking a prior question of another sort--why does this play represent theatricality the way it does?-we can better understand the play both in terms of …
Magic Mirrors
This essay argues that British photography of the 1850s and '60s wedded realism-understood as a commitment to descriptive truthfulness-with formalism, or a belief in the defining power of structural relationships. Photographers at midcentury understood the realistic character of photography to be grounded in more than fidelity to detail; the technical properties of the medium accorded perfectly with the claims of contemporary physicists that real…
Symbolic Logic and the Logic of Symbolism
Algebraic Art
Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation, witnessing the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the revaluation of symbolic algebra, and the importation of mathematical language into philosophy. All these innovations sprang from a recon…
Analogy
Analogy was a crucial conceptual tool for Victorian natural philosophers, who regarded the physical world less in terms of material bodies than formal relationships. Thus, even as they aimed for verisimilitude in their theoretical models, James Clerk Maxwell and Michael Faraday used analogical figures freely, for they understood nature itself to be structured around analogical relations. Like Maxwell, Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote an undergrad…
Afterword
This essay reminds readers of the nineteenth-century origins of the disciplinary divide between scientific, formal-theoretical knowledge on the one hand and particularizing, creaturely knowledge on the other, arguing that we literary critics have tended to reify this divide even when we have sought to be more "scientific" in our methods. Logic falls on the far side of this divide; because we typically regard it as a consummately scientific and fo…
Atomic Individuals
Victorian chemistry and Victorian political theory are both constructed around a foundational analytic unit: for the former, it is the atom, and for the latter, the individual. Because the latter construct was actually the more robust of the two, Victorian chemists used the resources of art and literature to lend individuality to atoms, while literary writers used chemistry to suggest that the category of the individual might be no more than a fi…
Victorian Equations
As familiar as the form of the mathematical equation is to us, the ostensibly simple act of equating unlike things was an achievement many centuries in the making, and one that would ultimately redefine European mathematical enquiry such that its bias toward geometry and the concrete would be displaced by a bias toward algebraic abstraction. The moment of that displacement was the nineteenth century, and its broader significance is on particularl…
Art (8 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (2 works)