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Before Einstein : the Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture
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Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth ...
Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. 'Before Einstein' offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.
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- London : Anthem Press, 2017
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- 1 online resource (222 pages)
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- 1783086254, 9781783086238, 9781783086252, 1783086238
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- ocn980836751, ocn967876458
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Charles Howard Hinton (1853-1907); Before Einstein: The Literary Fourth Dimension; 'Ambulatory Relations'; Part I: Reading the Fourth Dimension; Part II: Reading Through the Fourth Dimension; The Literary Fourth Dimension; Part I Reading the Fourth Dimension; Chapter One Imagining 'Something Perfectly New': Problems of Language, Conception and Perception; The New Geometries; The Dimensional Analogy; Before Hinton: The Fourth Dimension 1846-1880; Hinton's Early Influences
- The Ruskinian ImaginationHinton's Hyperspace Philosophy; Chapter Two Constructing the Fourth Dimension: The First Series of the Scientific Romances; 'What Is the Fourth Dimension?'; Victorian Thermodynamics and the Fourth Dimension; 'The Persian King; or, the Law of the Valley'; 'Casting Out the Self'; Chapter Three The Four-Dimensional Self: Personal, Political and Untimely; The Hintonians; Gendered Temporality; Stella as Experiment; Untimely and Invisible; Nietzsche, the 'Disadvantages' of the Past and An Unfinished Communication; 'Unlearning'; Eternal Recurrence in Nietzsche and Hinton
- Part II Reading Through the Fourth DimensionChapter Four Four-Dimensional Consciousness: The Correspondence Between William James and Charles Howard Hinton; The Hinton-James Correspondence; The Fourth Dimension as Conjunctive Relations; 'A Moving Consciousness' in William James and Hinton; William James and the Heroic Will-to-Attention; Hinton, James and Fechner's 'Mother-Sea' of Consciousness; Chapter Five H.G. Wells's Four-Dimensional Literary Aesthetic; Four-Dimensional Invention; The Other Invisible Protagonist; 'An "Habeas Corpus" of an Uncanny Source'
- Wells's Splintering Frame Technique and 'Cubist Visual Culture'Disruption and Disunity in The Invisible Man; The Spoils of Boon; Chapter Six Exceeding 'The Trap of the Reflexive': Henry James's Dimensions of Consciousness; The Spiralling Consciousness in Henry James; The Spoils of Poynton (1896-1897); 'The Great Good Place' (1900); Henry James and 'Aesthetic Time'; 'The Jolly Corner' (1908); 'A Kind of Fourth Dimension' in Henry James; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
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- Hinton, Charles Howard, 1853-1907 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- James, William, 1842-1910.
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Hyperspace.
- Fourth dimension.
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.