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Victorian literature and the physics of the imponderable / by Sarah C. Alexander.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Sarah C., author.
- Series:
- Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
- Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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'.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 7, 2016).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781315653686
- 1315653680
- 9780822964858
- 0822964856
- 9780822981886
- 0822981882
- 9781317316817
- 1317316819
- 9781781447918
- 1781447918
- OCLC:
- 957436498
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