Einstein's Wake
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Einstein's Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature

Einstein's Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature


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The revolution in literary form and aesthetic consciousness called modernism arose as the physical sciences were revising their most fundamental concepts: space, time, matter, and the concept of 'science' itself. The coincidence has often been remarked upon in general terms, but rarely considered in detail. Einstein's Wake argues that the interaction of modernism and the 'new physics' is best understood by reference to the metaphors which structured these developments. These metaphors, widely disseminated in the popular science writing of the period, provided a language with which modernist writers could articulate their responses to the experience of modernity. Beginning with influential aspects of nineteenth-century physics, Einstein's Wake qualifies the notion that Einstein alone was responsible for literary 'relativity'; it goes on to examine the fine detail of his legacy in literary appropriations of scientific metaphors, with particular attention to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, and T. S. Eliot.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1: The Specialist, the Generalist, and the Popularist 2: Things Fall Apart: The Secret Agent and Literary Entropy 3: Descriptionism: Consuming Sensations 4: An Entente Cordiale? The New Relations of Literature and Science 5: Invisible Men and Fractured Atoms 6: Simultaneity: A Return Ticket to Waterloo 7: Non-Euclidean Humanity Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Michael H. Whitworth Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Bangor

Review :
`this well-researched and well-documented study will interest literary critics at the graduate level and above and scholars in a broad range of other disciplines.' Choice `Einstein's Wake exercises the fine-grained approach admirably, showing how metaphors of science were employed and transformed by modernist writers.' Charlotte Sleigh, University of Kent at Canterbury


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198186403
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature
  • Width: 146 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0198186401
  • Publisher Date: 13 Dec 2001
  • Height: 225 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 424 gr


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