UID:
edoccha_9959648553902883
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9781783086252
,
1783086254
,
9781783086245
,
1783086246
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.
Note:
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.
Language:
English
URL:
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