Starry sky within : astronomy and the reach of the mind in Victorian literature /

'The Starry Sky Within' is an innovative study of previously unexplored connections between 19th-century astronomy and British literature. Astronomers in the 19th-century revealed a staggeringly mobile world extending far beyond the scope of human vision and Anna Henchman examines how this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henchman, Anna (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Temas:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
Astronomie > Motiv
Englisch
Literatur
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one. Observers in motion. Astronomy, optics, and point of view
  • Thomas De Quincey's Disoriented universe
  • Grief in motion: parallax and orbing in Tennyson
  • Part two. Astronomy and the multiplot novel. Introduction: Novels as celestial systems
  • Hardy's stargazers and the astronomy of other minds
  • George Eliot and the sweep of the senses
  • Narratives on a grand scale: astronomy and narrative space.

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