Article ID: CBB501171934

On knowing nature's syntax: Preliminary cisness, victorian physiology and George Eliot (2024)

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As a trans intervention in Victorian studies and historical extension of recent work in trans studies, this article argues that the theorisation of natural laws in mid-nineteenth century, British physiology produces a ‘preliminary cisness’ in Victorian sexual science. By then juxtaposing George Eliot's Adam Bede with work by Herbert Spencer and George Henry Lewes and undertaking a close study of the characters Hetty Sorrel and Dinah Morris, this article suggests that Eliot offers social sympathy as a non-cis, epistemological alternative to the ethical risks of pre-cis sex.

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Authors & Contributors
Buckland, Adelene
Cameron, Lauren
Carignan, Michael
Coriale, Danielle
Currie, Richard A.
Davis, Michael
Journals
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Victorian Literature and Culture
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Journal of the History of Ideas
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Victorian Newsletter
Publishers
Harvard University
Brandeis University
Bucknell University Press
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press
Oxford University Press
Routledge
Concepts
Science and literature
Psychology
Poetry and poetics
Evolution
Medicine
Science and culture
People
Eliot, George
Lewes, George Henry
Spencer, Herbert
Hardy, Thomas
Bain, Alexander
Darwin, Charles Robert
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Great Britain
British Isles
Ireland
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