Thomas Hardy and the Value of Brains
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Lyons (0000-0002-0742-2375, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 327-359 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150318001572 |
| OpenAlex | W2909073266 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 43 |
This article reads Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders (1887) and Jude the Obscure (1895) as ambivalent responses to the new conception of human intelligence that emerged from Victorian psychology and evolutionary theory and which formed the basis of what I describe as the Victorian biopolitics of intelligence. Although these novels reflect Hardy's endorsement of the new biological model of intelligence, they also register his resistance to what many late Victorians assumed to be its corollary: that mental worth can be an object of scientific measurement, classification, and ranking. I suggest that the work of the philosopher Jacques Rancière illuminates the extent to which these novels challenge the scientific reification of intellectual inequality and attempt to vindicate overlooked and stigmatized forms of intelligence
Ambivalence · Biopower · Corollary · Epistemology · Object (grammar · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Reification (Marxism · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology
The One vs. the Many
The principles of psychology.
Hereditary genius
Naming the Mind
Political Biology
The Measure of Merit
Society must be defended
In the Name of Eugenics
Cruel Optimism
Darwin's Plots
Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century
Dissensus
Moralising Poverty
John Stuart Mill, innate differences, and the regulation of reproduction
Voicing the Language of Literature
Holiness and The Temple
Measuring the Mind
Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought
Public Examinations in England 1850-1900
The principles of psychology
The Politics of Literature
The Naturalized Female Intellect
Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |