ThermoPoetics : energy in Victorian literature and science /

An 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. Char...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gold, Barri J., 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Physics in literature.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Physique dans la littérature.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY > Modern > 18th Century.
English literature
Literature and science
Physics in literature
Great Britain
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
HUMANITIES/Literature & Criticism
PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The consolation of physics : discovery
  • Introduction: That thing we do
  • Tennyson's thermodynamic solution
  • Energy and empire : applications
  • Grand unified theories, or, who's got GUTs?
  • The reign of force
  • A far better rest : equilibrium and entropy in A tale of two cities
  • The engine and the demon : transformations
  • Bleak house : the novel as engine
  • Bodies in heat : demons, women, and emergent order.

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