Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence

ISBN-13: 9780198815976 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str.

Rachel Crossland

Opis

Modernist Physics studies literary texts and scientific ideas in their historical context to provide an original account of the ways in which Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence engaged with the scientific theories, especially those of Albert Einstein.

Recenzje

...[a] diligent, thoughtful and articulate study... Jeff Wallace, Cardiff Metropolitan University, D.H. Lawrence Review

O autorze

Rachel Crossland is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chichester. Following a BA in English and Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool, she completed her Masters and DPhil at St John's College, Oxford. She taught at various colleges at the University of Oxford, before taking up a year's Lectureship at King's College London in 2014. She joined the University of Chichester in January 2015. Dr Crossland is interested in links between literature and science in the early twentieth century, including popular science, and in modernist writing more broadly considered.