Space and the 'March of Mind' Literature and the Physical Sciences in Britain 1815-1850

Name: Space and the 'March of Mind' Literature and the Physical Sciences in Britain 1815-1850
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ISBN: 9780199209927

ISBN-10: 0199209928

ISBN-13: 9780199209927

Edition: 2007

Authors: Alice Jenkins

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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 relationship with science. In particular it brings the physical sciences - physics and chemistry - more accessibly and fully into the arena of literary criticism than has been the case until now.Writers whose work is discussed in this book include many who will be familiar to a literary audience (including Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Hazlitt), some well-known in the history of science (including Faraday, Herschel, and Whewell), and a raft of…

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List price: $140.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English




Culture as nature : landscape metaphors and access to the world of learning



Organizing the space of knowledge



Disciplinary boundaries and border disputes



Space and the languages of science



Aspiring to the abstract : pure space and geometry



Bodies in space : ether, light, and the beginnings of the field



Chaos, the void, and poetry