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Victorian literature and the physics of the imponderable
להגדלת הטקסט להקטנת הטקסט- ספר
The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how literature and popular culture adopted the emerging language of physics to explain the unknown or 'imponderable'.
| כותר |
Victorian literature and the physics of the imponderable / by Sarah C. Alexander. |
|---|---|
| מוציא לאור |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press |
| שנה |
2016 |
| הערות |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Acknowledgements Introduction: Imponderable Matter 1 Dickensian Physics: Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend and the Luminiferous Ether 2 The Residuum, Victorian Naturalism and the Entropic Narrative 3 Overcoming Entropy: Energy, Capital and the Late-Victorian Literary Utopia 4 Empire and the Fourth Dimension: Non-Euclidean Geometry, the Heterotopic Narrative and the Economics of Space Epilogue: Atoms and Economics - Vortex Theory and Finance Works Cited Notes Index |
| סדרה |
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century |
| היקף החומר |
1 online resource |
| שפה |
אנגלית |
| שנת זכויות יוצרים |
©2016 |
| מספר מערכת |
997010712153905171 |
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