Victorian literature and the physics of the imponderable / by Sarah C. Alexander.
Material type:
TextSeries: Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 26.Publisher: London : Pickering & Chatto, 2015Description: 1 online resource (ix, 204 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781781447901
- 178144790X
- 9781781447918
- 1781447918
- 9781317316817
- 1317316819
- 9781848935662
- 1848935668
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Physics in literature
- Medicine in literature
- Medicine in Literature
- Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Physique dans la littérature
- Médecine dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English literature
- Physics in literature
- 1800-1899
- 820.9/36 23
- PR461
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed April 22, 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 â#x80;#x98;imponderableâ#x80;#x99.