Space and the 'March of Mind'
Literature and the Physical Sciences in Britain 1815-1850
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 January 2007
- ISBN 9780199209927
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 238x159x20 mm
- Weight 445 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book is about the idea of space in the nineteenth century. It uses contemporary poetry, essays, and fiction as well as scientific papers, textbooks, and journalism to examine literature's relationship with science. In particular it brings the physical sciences more accessibly and fully into the arena of literary criticism than ever before.
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This book is about the idea of space in the first half of the nineteenth century. It uses contemporary poetry, essays, and fiction as well as scientific papers, textbooks, and journalism to give a new account of nineteenth-century literature's relationship with science. In particular it brings the physical sciences - physics and chemistry - more accessibly and fully into the arena of literary criticism than has been the case until now.
Writers whose work is discussed in this book include many who will be familiar to a literary audience (including Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Hazlitt), some well-known in the history of science (including Faraday, Herschel, and Whewell), and a raft of lesser-known figures. Alice Jenkins draws a new map of the interactions between literature and science in the first half of the nineteenth century, showing how both disciplines were wrestling with the same central political and intellectual concerns - regulating access to knowledge, organising knowledge in productive ways, and formulating the relationships of old and new knowledges.
Space has become a subject of enormous critical interest in literary and cultural studies. Space and the 'March of Mind' gives a wide-ranging account of how early nineteenth-century writers thought about - and thought with - space. Burgeoning mass access to print culture combined with rapid scientific development to create a crisis in managing knowledge. Contemporary writers tried to solve this crisis by rethinking the nature of space. Writers in all genres and disciplines, from all points on the political spectrum, returned again and again to ideas and images of space when they needed to set up or dismantle boundaries in the intellectual realm, and when they wanted to talk about what kinds of knowledge certain groups of readers wanted, needed, or deserved. This book provides a rich new picture of the early nineteenth century's understanding of its own culture.
Alice Jenkins' ambitious study of British literary and scientific culture in the nineteenth century breaks new ground... She moves effortlessly between science and literature. An erudite study with many fresh insights, Space and the 'March of Mind' is an important addition to the scholarship on nineteenth-century science and literature
Table of Contents:
Part One: Thinking with Spaces
Culture as Nature: Landscape Metaphors and Access to the World of Learning
Organising the Space of Knowledge
Disciplinary Boundaries and Border Disputes
Space and the Languages of Science
Part Two: Thinking about Space
Aspiring to the Abstract: Pure Space and Geometry
Bodies in Space: Ether, Light, and the Beginnings of the Field
Chaos, the Void, and Poetry
