LEADER 03896nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910455593403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-262-28826-5 010 $a0-262-28827-3 010 $a1-282-54192-7 010 $a9786612541926 010 $a0-262-27400-0 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006504 035 $a(OCoLC)608691497 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10372261 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000429663 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11314388 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000429663 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10449689 035 $a(PQKB)11757342 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339117 035 $a(OCoLC)608691497$z(OCoLC)608352145$z(OCoLC)647891313$z(OCoLC)764533857$z(OCoLC)961498049$z(OCoLC)962627998$z(OCoLC)964618337$z(OCoLC)1055386581$z(OCoLC)1058153442$z(OCoLC)1063963599$z(OCoLC)1081238675 035 $a(OCoLC-P)608691497 035 $a(MaCbMITP)8062 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339117 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10372261 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL254192 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006504 100 $a20090513d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThermopoetics$b[electronic resource] $eenergy in Victorian literature and science /$fBarri J. Gold 210 $aCambridge, MA $cMIT Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (357 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-51731-0 311 $a0-262-01372-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aAn engaging exploration of the mutually productive interaction of literature and energy science in the Victorian era, as seen in Tennyson, Dickens, Stoker, and others. In ThermoPoetics, Barri Gold sets out to show us how analogous, intertwined, and mutually productive poetry and physics may be. Charting the simultaneous emergence of the laws of thermodynamics in literature and in physics that began in the 1830's, Gold finds that not only can science influence literature, but literature can influence science, especially in the early stages of intellectual development. Nineteenth-century physics was often conducted in words. And, Gold claims, a poet could be a genius in thermodynamics and a novelist could be a damn good engineer. Gold's lively readings of works by Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Herbert Spencer, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, and others offer a decidedly literary introduction to such elements of thermodynamic thought as conservation and dissipation, the linguistic tension between force and energy, the quest for a grand unified theory, strategies for coping within an inexorably entropic universe, and the demonic potential of the thermodynamically savvy individual. Gold shows us that in A Tale of Two Cities, for example, Dickens produces order in spite of the universal drive to entropy; Wilde's Dorian Gray and Stoker's Dracula, on the other hand, reveal the creative potential of chaos. Victorian literature embraced the language and ideas of energy physics to address the era's concerns about religion, evolution, race, class, empire, gender, and sexuality. Gold argues that these concerns, in turn, shaped the hopes and fears expressed about the new physics. 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPhysics in literature 606 $aLiterature and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPhysics in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and science$xHistory 676 $a820/.9/356 700 $aGold$b Barri J.$f1966-$0851127 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455593403321 996 $aThermopoetics$92101245 997 $aUNINA