{"product_id":"9781474497671-assessing-intelligence","title":"Assessing Intelligence","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Bildungsroman and the Politics of Human Potential in England, 1860–1910\u003cbr\u003eExamines how novelists engaged with the emergence of the IQ concept of intelligence and the meritocratic ideal\u003cbr\u003eHow 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 bildungsroman, 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 Ranciere, 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41608364654689,"sku":"9781474497671","price":26.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39359635_71de067b-a931-40ab-b5e2-503a6bf1a128.jpg?v=1767839410","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781474497671-assessing-intelligence","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}