Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination

Illustrates how the discovery of electromagnetism in 1820 not only led to technological inventions, such as the dynamo and the telegraph, but also legitimized modes of reasoning that manifested a sharper ability to perceive how metonymic relations could reveal the order of things.

About the author

Kieran M. Murphy is Associate Professor of French at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Summary

Illustrates how the discovery of electromagnetism in 1820 not only led to technological inventions, such as the dynamo and the telegraph, but also legitimized modes of reasoning that manifested a sharper ability to perceive how metonymic relations could reveal the order of things.

Product details

• Authors: Kieran M Murphy, Kieran M. Murphy, Kieran M. (Assistant Professor Murphy
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780271086064
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08606-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 334 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: AnthropoScene
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Electricity, magnetism, optics; France, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments, Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, Literature: history and criticism, Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism