| 书目名称 | Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences | | 副标题 | Poetical Matter | | 编辑 | Gregory Tate | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Offers a wide-ranging assessment of how perceptions of poetry, science, and materialism changed over the course of the long nineteenth-century.Looks at how debates about the relation between poetry an | | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Poetical Matter. examines the two-way exchange of language and methods between nineteenth-century poetry and the physical sciences. The book argues that poets such as William Wordsworth, Mathilde Blind, and Thomas Hardy identified poetry as an experimental investigation of nature’s materiality. It also explores how science writers such as Humphry Davy, Mary Somerville, and John Tyndall used poetry to formulate their theories, to bestow cultural legitimacy on the emerging disciplines of chemistry and physics, and to communicate technical knowledge to non-specialist audiences. The book’s chapters show how poets and science writers relied on a set of shared terms (“form,” “experiment,” “rhythm,” “sound,” “measure”) and how the meaning of those terms was debated and reimagined in a range of different texts..“A stimulating analysis of nineteenth-century poetry and physics. In this groundbreaking.study, Tate turns to sound to tease out fascinating continuities across.scientific inquiry and verse. Reflecting that ‘the processes of the universe’ were.themselves ‘rhythmic,’ he shows that a wide range of poets and scientists were.thinking through undulatory motion as a space where the mater | | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | | 关键词 | Nineteenth-century poetry; Poetry and science; Nineteenth-century physical science; William Wordsworth; | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31441-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-31443-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-31441-5Series ISSN 2634-6435 Series E-ISSN 2634-6443 | | issn_series | 2634-6435 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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