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Space and the 'March of Mind' - Literature and the Physical Sciences in Britain 1815-1850 (Hardcover, New)
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Space and the 'March of Mind' - Literature and the Physical Sciences in Britain 1815-1850 (Hardcover, New)
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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, organizing 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 theintellectual 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.
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