Before Einstein : the fourth dimension in fin-de-siècle in literature and culture /
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 fou...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Anthem Press,
2017.
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Colección: | Anthem nineteenth century studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Reading the fourth dimension
- 1. Imagining 'something perfectly new': problems of language, conception and perception
- 2. Constructing the fourth dimension: the first series of the Scientific romances
- 3. The four-dimensional self: personal, political and untimely
- Part II: Reading through the fourth dimension
- 4. Four-dimensional consciousness: the correspondence between William James and Charles Howard Hinton
- 5. H.G. Wells's four-dimensional literary aesthetic
- 6. Exceeding the 'trap of the reflexive': Henry James's dimensions of consciousness.