Space and the "march of mind" : literature and the physical sciences in Britain, 1815-1850 / Alice Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenkins, Alice, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and science.

Space in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is about the idea of space in the nineteenth century. It uses contemporary poetry, essays, and fiction as well as scientific papers, textbooks, and journalism to examine literature's relationship with science. In particular it brings the physical sciences more accessibly and fully into the arena of literary criticism than ever before. - ;This book is about the idea of space in the first half of the nineteenth century. It uses contemporary poetry, essays, and fiction as well as scientific papers, textbooks, and journalism to give a new account of nineteenth-century literature's relati

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; I. THINKING WITH SPACES; 1. Culture as Nature: Landscape Metaphors and Access to the World of Learning; 2. Organizing the Space of Knowledge; 3. Disciplinary Boundaries and Border Disputes; 4. Space and the Languages of Science; II. THINKING ABOUT SPACE; 5. Aspiring to the Abstract: Pure Space and Geometry; 6. Bodies in Space: Ether, Light, and the Beginnings of the Field; 7. Chaos, the Void, and Poetry; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-152617-7

1-281-16066-0

9786611160661

OCLC:

437094887