Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable
Sarah C Alexander
The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how literature and popular culture adopted the emerging language of physics to explain the unknown or ‘imponderable’.
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Año:
2015
Editorial:
Routledge
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
256
ISBN 10:
1848935668
ISBN 13:
9781848935662
Serie:
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Archivo:
PDF, 1.19 MB
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english, 2015