Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable

Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable
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Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9781317316800
ISBN-13 : 1317316800
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Book Synopsis Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable by : Sarah C Alexander

Download or read book Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable written by Sarah C Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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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