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And in the same moment it flashed upon Oleron , he knew not how , that two , three , five , he knew not how many minutes before , another sound , unmarked at the time but suddenly transfixing his attention now , had striven to reach his intelligence . Earnestness , prudishness , perversity , complacency , boundless optimism and bottomless despair are all indelibly linked , in our minds , to that peculiarly conflicted abstraction , the Victorian temper ; just as the works of Dickens , Eliot , Carroll , Collins , Flaubert and Wilde all embody wildly divergent visions of that fantastically malleable animal , the Victorian novel . Mathematically , 300-350 pages per week averages out to 45-55 pages of reading per day . It had been on that morning that Mrs. Barrett , overhearing him humming a brief phrase that the dripping of a tap the night before had suggested , had informed him that he was singing some air he had never in his life heard before , called " The Beckoning Fair One . Throughout the century , whole scientific disciplines grew up around the threatening figures of criminals , homosexuals , paupers and hysterical women ; while even such seemingly innocuous topics as masturbation , nervousness and dirt were pervaded by a sense of danger and disgust . Tracking recurrent literary obsessions with questions of justice , nervousness , contagion , consumption , desire , depravity , and , not surprisingly , reading , we will study how the Victorian novel helped an emergent industrial society imagine itself into being . Death cases generate more emotion with jurors , Seeger said.Andy Birchfield , co-lead counsel in an upcoming federal Vioxx case along with Seeger , called the short-term use issue a red herring thrown out by Merck . This course will take as its animating premise that the Victorian novel did much to shape - - or temper - - the Victorian temper ; that , indeed , Victorian moods may be said to be inseparable from Victorian novels , which alternately helped to bring a range of modern affects into being ( among them boredom , nervousness , love and depression ) , and worked to initiate the analysis of affect that eventually became the modern science of psychology .