Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable
earliest edition we have, 2015 University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015 hardcover 216 pages
The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizable 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'. Writers such as Charles Dickens, William Morris and Joseph Conrad used recent concepts such as energy, entropy and atom theory to expl...
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