Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination /

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"Illustrates how the discovery of electromagnetism in 1820 not only led to technological inventions, such as the dynamo and the telegraph, but also legitimized modes of reasoning that manifested a sharper ability to perceive how metonymic relations could reveal the order of things"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murphy, Kieran M. (Kieran Marcellin), 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste, > comte de, > 1838-1889.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849.
Balzac, Honore de, > 1799-1850.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Criticism and interpretation.
Balzac, Honore de, > 1799-1850 > Criticism and interpretation.
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste, > comte de, > 1838-1889 > Criticism and interpretation.
Metonyms.
Literature and science.
Electromagnetism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
metonymy.
Litterature et sciences.
Metonymie.
Électromagnetisme dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • (Electro- )magnetic chains
  • Induction apparatuses
  • Automata.

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