The Starry Sky Within
Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature
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- Kiadó OUP Oxford
- Megjelenés dátuma 2014. január 16.
- ISBN 9780199686964
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem314 oldal
- Méret 243x164x24 mm
- Súly 696 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 32 black-and-white halftones 0
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Rövid leírás:
The Starry Sky Within is an innovative study of previously unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and British literature. Nineteenth-century astronomers revealed a staggeringly mobile world extending far beyond the scope of human vision and Henchman examines how this discovery inspired the novelists of the day.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
Tracing unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and literature, The Starry Sky Within offers a new understanding of literary point of view as essentially multiple, mobile, and comparative. Nineteenth-century astronomy revealed a cosmos of celestial systems in constant motion. Stars, comets, planets, and moons coursed through space in complex and changing relation. As the skies were in motion, so too was the human subject. Astronomers showed that human beings never perceive the world from a stable position. The mobility of our bodies in space and the very structure of stereoscopic vision mean that point of view is neither singular nor stable. We always see the world as an amalgam of fractured perspectives.
In this innovative study, Henchman shows that the reconceptualization of the skies gave poets and novelists new spaces in which to indulge their longing to escape the limitations of individual perspective. She links astronomy and optics to the form of the multiplot novel, with its many centers of consciousness, complex systems of relation, and criss-crossing points of view. Accounts of a world and a subject both in relative motion shaped the form of grand-scale narratives such as Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Bleak House, and Daniel Deronda. De Quincey, Tennyson, and Eliot befriended leading astronomers and visited observatories, while Hardy learned about astronomy from the vast popular literature of the day. These writers use cosmic distances to dislodge their readers from the earth, setting human perception against views from high above and then telescoping back to earth again. What results is a new perception of the mobility of point of view in both literature and science.
From start to finish, The Starry Sky Within makes its case imaginatively but judiciously, connecting the astronomical and the literary in sophisticated, multifaceted, and thoroughly convincing ways. Henchman remains careful throughout to avoid collapsing literature and astronomy into one another, while remaining alive to the exciting possibilities that arise when they are put into conversation. This deeply knowledgeable and consistently illuminating book will be a valuable resource for scholars of literature and the history of science, and for anyone interested in Victorian intellectual history.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Introduction
Part One: Observers in Motion
Astronomy, Optics, and Point of View
Thomas De Quincey's Disoriented Universe
Grief in Motion: Parallax and Orbing in Tennyson
Part Two: Astronomy and the Multiplot Novel
Introduction: Novels as Celestial Systems
Hardy's Stargazers and the Astronomy of Other Minds
George Eliot and the Sweep of the Senses
Narratives on a Grand Scale: Astronomy and Narrative Space
Conclusion
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