Sarah Alexander

Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Victorians are known for their commitment to materialism, evidenced by the dominance of empiricism in the sciences and realism in fiction. Yet there were other strains of thinking during the period in the physical sciences, social sciences, and literature that privileged the spacesbetweenthe material and immaterial. This book examines how the emerging language of the "imponderable" helped Victorian writers and physicists make sense of new experiences of modernity. As Sarah Alexander argues, while Victorian physicists were theorizing ether, energy and entropy, and non-Euclidean space and atom theories, writers such as Charles Dickens, William Morris, and Joseph Conrad used concepts of the imponderable to explore key issues of capitalism, imperialism, and social unrest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAPA Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822981886
• Artikelnr.: 45689681

Autorenporträt

Sarah C. Alexander is an associate professor of English at the University of Vermont.