Philipp Erchinger is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. He has published a monograph on contingency and narrative form in Nashe, Sterne and Byron (Kontingenzformen) as well as articles on nineteenth century poetry and prose, literary theory and the writing of the arts and sciences.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Experiment and the Art of Writing1. The Art of Science: Nineteenth-Century Theory and the Logic of Practice2. Learning by Experiment: T. H. Huxley and the Aesthetic Nature of Education3. Following the Actors: G. H. Lewes’s and George Eliot’s Studies in Life4. Steps Towards an Ecology of Experience: Empiricism, Pragmatism and George Eliot’s The Spanish Gypsy5. Speech in Action: Victorian Philology and the Uprooting of Language6. William Morris’s ‘Work-Pleasure’: Literature, Science and Fine Art7. Robert Browning’s Experiment: Composition and Communication in The Ring and the Book8. The Making of Sensation FictionClothing Matter: Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor ResartusBibliographyIndex

Philipp Erchinger is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. He has published a monograph on contingency and narrative form in Nashe, Sterne and Byron (Kontingenzformen) as well as articles on nineteenth century poetry and prose, literary theory and the writing of the arts and sciences.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Experiment and the Art of Writing1. The Art of Science: Nineteenth-Century Theory and the Logic of Practice2. Learning by Experiment: T. H. Huxley and the Aesthetic Nature of Education3. Following the Actors: G. H. Lewes’s and George Eliot’s Studies in Life4. Steps Towards an Ecology of Experience: Empiricism, Pragmatism and George Eliot’s The Spanish Gypsy5. Speech in Action: Victorian Philology and the Uprooting of Language6. William Morris’s ‘Work-Pleasure’: Literature, Science and Fine Art7. Robert Browning’s Experiment: Composition and Communication in The Ring and the Book8. The Making of Sensation FictionClothing Matter: Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor ResartusBibliographyIndex

Philipp Erchinger is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. He has published a monograph on contingency and narrative form in Nashe, Sterne and Byron (Kontingenzformen) as well as articles on nineteenth century poetry and prose, literary theory and the writing of the arts and sciences.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Experiment and the Art of Writing1. The Art of Science: Nineteenth-Century Theory and the Logic of Practice2. Learning by Experiment: T. H. Huxley and the Aesthetic Nature of Education3. Following the Actors: G. H. Lewes’s and George Eliot’s Studies in Life4. Steps Towards an Ecology of Experience: Empiricism, Pragmatism and George Eliot’s The Spanish Gypsy5. Speech in Action: Victorian Philology and the Uprooting of Language6. William Morris’s ‘Work-Pleasure’: Literature, Science and Fine Art7. Robert Browning’s Experiment: Composition and Communication in The Ring and the Book8. The Making of Sensation FictionClothing Matter: Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor ResartusBibliographyIndex