Assessing Intelligence

Examines how novelists engaged with the emergence of the IQ concept of intelligence and the meritocratic ideal Traces the Victorian genealogy of the modern concept of IQSituates Victorian and Edwardian bildungsromane in relation to the advent of mass education and the rise of eugenic thinkingReveals the centrality of ideas about intellectual ability and disability to five major novelistsTheorises how the novel form engages with the concept of meritocracy How did Victorian novelists engage with t