Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 28 July 2015

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

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 07 January 2020

This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 29 May 2019

Barrow’s timely book is the first to examine the link between Victorian poetry, the study of language, and political reform. Focusing on a range of literary, scientific, and political

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 28 July 2015

This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Dickens’s involvement with hospital funding, concerns over

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 18 May 2017

Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 28 July 2015

Adolphe Quetelet was an influential scientist whose controversial work was condemned by John Stuart Mill and Charles Dickens. He was in contact with many Victorian elite, including Babbage, Herschel and

• Publisher : University of Wales Press
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• Release Date : 01 November 2020

With the rapid development of the cognitive sciences and their importance to how we contemplate questions about the mind and society, recent research in the humanities has been characterised by

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 17 June 2020

Poetical Matter examines the two-way exchange of language and methods between nineteenth-century poetry and the physical sciences. The book argues that poets such as William Wordsworth, Mathilde Blind, and Thomas

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 13 September 2018

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 18 July 2019

This book provides a richly documented account of the historical, cultural, philosophical and practical dimensions of feng shui. It argues that where feng shui is entrenched educational systems have a