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Autore |
Throesch Elizabeth |
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Titolo |
Before Einstein : the fourth dimension in fin-de-siècle in literature and culture / / Elizabeth L. Throesch |
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London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Anthem Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (222 pages) |
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Collana |
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Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Space and time in literature |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Imagining something perfectly new: problems of language, conception and perception -- Constructing the fourth dimension: the first series of the scientific romances -- The four-dimensional self: personal, political and untimely -- Four-dimensional consciousness: the correspondence between William James and Charles Howard Hinton -- H.G. Wells's four-dimensional literary aesthetic -- Exceeding the trap of the reflexive: Henry James's dimensions of consciousness. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. Before Einstein offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century. |
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