Einstein's Wake (Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature)

ISBN-13: 9780198186403 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 272 str.

Michael H. Whitworth

Opis

Beginning with influential aspects of nineteenth-century physics, Einstein's Wake qualifies the notion that Einstein alone was responsible for literary "relativity"; it goes on to examine the fine detail of his legacy in literary appropriations of scientific metaphors, with particular attention to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, and T. S. Eliot.

Recenzje

Einstein's Wake combines painstaking archival research with an impressive command of a large range of disparate and difficult concepts. Whitworth traverses the tropological terrain of modernist literature and science with a fluidity that belies any simplistic 'two cultures' formulations of the period. Popular science writing is an under-criticized, under-theorized and under-historicized genre even within the field of 'literature and science'; Einstein's Wake is an important contribution to this field, and to modernist literary studies.

O autorze

Michael H. Whitworth Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Bangor