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ThermoPoetics : Energy in Victorian Literature and Science.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (357 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262274005
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: ThermoPoeticsDDC classification:
  • 820.9356
LOC classification:
  • PR468.S34G65 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I The Consolation of Physics: Discovery -- Prologue: Physics for Poets -- Introduction: That Thing We Do -- 1 Tennyson's Thermodynamic Solution -- II Energy and Empire: Applications -- 2 Grand Unified Theories, or Who's Got GUTs? -- 3 The Reign of Force -- 4 A Far Better Rest: Equilibrium and Entropy in A Tale of Two Cities -- III The Engine and the Demon: Transformations -- 5 Bleak House: The Novel as Engine -- 6 Bodies in Heat: Demons, Women, and Emergen tOrder -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: An engaging exploration of the mutually productive interaction of literature and energy science in the Victorian era, as seen in Tennyson, Dickens, Stoker, and others.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I The Consolation of Physics: Discovery -- Prologue: Physics for Poets -- Introduction: That Thing We Do -- 1 Tennyson's Thermodynamic Solution -- II Energy and Empire: Applications -- 2 Grand Unified Theories, or Who's Got GUTs? -- 3 The Reign of Force -- 4 A Far Better Rest: Equilibrium and Entropy in A Tale of Two Cities -- III The Engine and the Demon: Transformations -- 5 Bleak House: The Novel as Engine -- 6 Bodies in Heat: Demons, Women, and Emergen tOrder -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.

An engaging exploration of the mutually productive interaction of literature and energy science in the Victorian era, as seen in Tennyson, Dickens, Stoker, and others.

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