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Einstein's wake : relativity, metaphor, and modernist literature / Michael H. Whitworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitworth, Michael H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Relativity (Physics) in literature.
- Literature and science.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 254 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Beginning with influential aspects of nineteenth-century physics, Einstein's Wake qualifies the notion that Einstein alone was responsible for literary "relativity"; it goes on to examine the fine detail of his legacy in literary appropriations of scientific metaphors, with particular attention to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, and T. S. Eliot.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [238]-246) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198186401
- OCLC:
- 48468496
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