ThermoPoetics : energy in Victorian literature and science / Barri J. Gold.

  • Gold, Barri J., 1966-
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[2010], ©2010
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010], ©2010.

Physical description

x, 343 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-319) and index.

Contents

The consolation of physics : discovery -- Introduction: That thing we do -- Tennyson's thermodynamic solution -- Energy and empire : applications -- Grand unified theories, or, who's got GUTs? -- The reign of force -- A far better rest : equilibrium and entropy in A tale of two cities -- The engine and the demon : transformations -- Bleak house : the novel as engine -- Bodies in heat : demons, women, and emergent order.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9780262013727
  • 026201372X