Before Einstein : the fourth dimension in fin-de-siècle in literature and culture / Elizabeth L. Throesch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Throesch, Elizabeth, author.

Series:

Anthem nineteenth century studies.

Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time in literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages).

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Anthem Press, 2017.

Summary:

Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. Before Einstein offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Imagining something perfectly new: problems of language, conception and perception

Constructing the fourth dimension: the first series of the scientific romances

The four-dimensional self: personal, political and untimely

Four-dimensional consciousness: the correspondence between William James and Charles Howard Hinton

H.G. Wells's four-dimensional literary aesthetic

Exceeding the trap of the reflexive: Henry James's dimensions of consciousness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 16, 2017).

ISBN:

9781783086252

1783086254

OCLC:

980836751