Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable

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Author	: Sarah C Alexander
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 215
Release	: 2015-07-28
ISBN-10	: 9781317316817
ISBN-13	: 1317316819
Rating	: 4/5 (17 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable by : Sarah C Alexander

Book excerpt: 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 culture adopted the emerging language of physics to explain the unknown or ‘imponderable’.

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