Before Einstein : the fourth dimension in fin-de-siècle in literature and culture / / Elizabeth L. Throesch
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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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| Pubblicazione: | London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Anthem Press, , 2017 |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (222 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 809.93384 |
| Soggetto topico: | Space and time in literature |
| English literature - 19th century - History and criticism | |
| English literature - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Before Einstein |
| ISBN: | 1-78308-625-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910158623803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Anthem nineteenth century studies.