{"product_id":"assessing-intelligence-sara-lyons-9781474497664","title":"Assessing Intelligence: The Bildungsroman and the Politics of Human Potential in England, 1860-1910","description":"How did Victorian novelists engage with the new theories of human intelligence that emerged from late nineteenth-century psychology and evolutionary science? Assessing Intelligence traces the genealogy of the modern concept of IQ. It examines how five writers - George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, HG Wells and Virginia Woolf - used the \u003cem\u003ebildungsroman\u003c\/em\u003e, or the novel of education, to wrestle with the moral and political implications of the IQ model of intelligence and the fantasies of meritocracy it provoked. Drawing upon the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Ranci鑽e, Sara Lyons argues that Victorian and Edwardian novelists were by turns complicit in the biopolitics of intelligence and sought radical ways to affirm the equality of minds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Lyons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474497667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474497664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Sara Lyons","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44123387789567,"sku":"9781474497664","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ebd4207d-97e6-4db1-bef9-59ad2a9f879f.jpg?v=1687430602","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/assessing-intelligence-sara-lyons-9781474497664","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}