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 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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Alice Jenkins is a lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests are mainly in nineteenth-century literature and science. She is the co-editor with Juliet John of Rereading Victorian Fiction (Macmillan, 2000 and 2002) and Rethinking Victorian Culture (Macmillan, 2000) and of The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Literary Sourcebook (Routledge, 2006). She has published articles and essays on Michael Faraday, Mary Somerville, and various aspects of the cultural life of Victorian science, and others on twentieth-century fantasy writing. She is the co-founder of the British Society for Literature and Science.
Inhaltsangabe
Part One: Thinking with Spaces 1: Culture as Nature: Landscape Metaphors and Access to the World of Learning 2: Organising the Space of Knowledge 3: Disciplinary Boundaries and Border Disputes 4: Space and the Languages of Science Part Two: 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
Part One: Thinking with Spaces 1: Culture as Nature: Landscape Metaphors and Access to the World of Learning 2: Organising the Space of Knowledge 3: Disciplinary Boundaries and Border Disputes 4: Space and the Languages of Science Part Two: 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
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