The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension: Higher Spatial Thinking in the Fin de Siecle

ISBN-13: 9780198755487 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Mark Blacklock (Lecturer in Modern and C

Opis

This volume examines the emergence of the idea of the fourth dimension in fiction of the fin de siecle and how these new theories of the possibilities of time and space influenced writers such as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, H.G. Wells, Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, and others.

Recenzje

a highly intelligent, perceptive, and stimulating intervention into how a mathematical idea was transposed into literary fiction, inflecting its spatial concerns and prefiguring new modes of representation.

O autorze

Mark Blacklock is a cultural historian and novelist. His critically acclaimed first novel I'm Jack was published by Granta in 2015. He lectures on Cultural Studies and English Literature at Birkbeck College and writes for the national press.