Format:
1 Online-Ressource (250 pages)
,
illustrations, figures, tables
ISBN:
1783086246
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1783086254
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9781783086245
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9781783086252
Series Statement:
Anthem nineteenth-century series
Content:
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 four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century
Content:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 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 -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
eng
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1783086238
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783086238
Additional Edition:
Print version New York, NY : Anthem Press Before Einstein, The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle in Literature and Culture London
Language:
English
Keywords:
Englisch
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Literatur
;
Dimension 4
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Geschichte 1850-1910
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URL:
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