Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable.
Title:
Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable.
Author:
Alexander, Sarah C.
ISBN:
9780822981886
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (215 pages)
Series:
Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century ; v.26
Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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