Author: Michael Faraday
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Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Experimental Researches in Electricity: Series 1-14 [Philosophical transactions, 1832-1838] 1839
Author: Michael Faraday
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Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Publisher:
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Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
Author: Stella Pratt-Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317007816
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing electricity as a site for intense and imaginative Victorian speculation, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the synthesis of nineteenth-century electricity made possible by the powerful combination of science, literature and the popular imagination. With electricity resisting clear description, even by those such as Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell who knew it best, Pratt-Smith argues that electricity was both metaphorically suggestive and open to imaginative speculation. Her book engages with Victorian scientific texts, popular and specialist periodicals and the work of leading midcentury novelists, including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, William Makepeace Thackeray and Wilkie Collins. Examining the work of William Harrison Ainsworth and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pratt-Smith explores how Victorian novelists attributed magical qualities to electricity, imbuing it with both the romance of the past and the thrill of the future. She concludes with a case study of Benjamin Lumley’s Another World, which presents an enticing fantasy of electricity’s potential based on contemporary developments. Ultimately, her book contends that writing and reading about electricity appropriated and expanded its imaginative scope, transformed its factual origins and applications and contravened the bounds of literary genres and disciplinary constraints.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317007816
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing electricity as a site for intense and imaginative Victorian speculation, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the synthesis of nineteenth-century electricity made possible by the powerful combination of science, literature and the popular imagination. With electricity resisting clear description, even by those such as Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell who knew it best, Pratt-Smith argues that electricity was both metaphorically suggestive and open to imaginative speculation. Her book engages with Victorian scientific texts, popular and specialist periodicals and the work of leading midcentury novelists, including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, William Makepeace Thackeray and Wilkie Collins. Examining the work of William Harrison Ainsworth and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pratt-Smith explores how Victorian novelists attributed magical qualities to electricity, imbuing it with both the romance of the past and the thrill of the future. She concludes with a case study of Benjamin Lumley’s Another World, which presents an enticing fantasy of electricity’s potential based on contemporary developments. Ultimately, her book contends that writing and reading about electricity appropriated and expanded its imaginative scope, transformed its factual origins and applications and contravened the bounds of literary genres and disciplinary constraints.
Transactions Of The Geological Society
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Transactions of the Geological Society
Author: Geological Society of London
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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Transactions of the Geological Society of London
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967: Authors & titles
Author: University of California (System). Institute of Library Research
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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The Catalogue of the History of Science Collections of the University of Oklahoma Libraries
Author: University of Oklahoma. Libraries
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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