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ThermoPoetics : energy in Victorian literature and science / Barri J. Gold.
Van Pelt Library PR468.S34 G65 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gold, Barri J., 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physics in literature.
- Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and science.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 343 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- The consolation of physics : discovery
- Introduction: That thing we do
- Tennyson's thermodynamic solution
- Energy and empire : applications
- Grand unified theories, or, who's got GUTs?
- The reign of force
- A far better rest : equilibrium and entropy in A tale of two cities
- The engine and the demon : transformations
- Bleak house : the novel as engine
- Bodies in heat : demons, women, and emergent order.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262013727
- 026201372X
- OCLC:
- 324731254
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