Einstein''s Wake - Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature

Zusatztext Einstein's Wake combines painstaking archival research with an impressive command of a large range of disparate and difficult concepts. Whitworth traverses the tropological terrain of modernist literature and science with a fluidity that belies any simplistic 'two cultures' formulations of the period. Popular science writing is an under-criticized, under-theorized and under-historicized genre even within the field of 'literature and science'; Einstein's Wake is an important contribution to this field, and to modernist literary studies. Informationen zum Autor Michael H. Whitworth Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Bangor Klappentext Beginning with influential aspects of nineteenth-century physics, Einstein's Wake qualifies the notion that Einstein alone was responsible for literary "relativity"; it goes on to examine the fine detail of his legacy in literary appropriations of scientific metaphors, with particular attention to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, and T. S. Eliot. Zusammenfassung Modernist writers were well aware of the new physics and its underlying concepts. Einstein's Wake shows how the most innovative scientific thinking was understood by non-specialists such as Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and T. S. Eliot, and how it entered into their literary works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The Specialist, the Generalist, and the Popularist 2: Things Fall Apart: The Secret Agent and Literary Entropy 3: Descriptionism: Consuming Sensations 4: An Entente Cordiale? The New Relations of Literature and Science 5: Invisible Men and Fractured Atoms 6: Simultaneity: A Return Ticket to Waterloo 7: Non-Euclidean Humanity Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Michael H Whitworth, Michael H. Whitworth, Michael H. ( Whitworth, Michael H. (Lecturer in English Whitworth, Whitworth Michael H.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2001
• EAN: 9780198186403
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818640-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, English, SCIENCE / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, History of Science, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Relativity physics, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000