Before Einstein : the fourth dimension in fin-de-siècle in literature and culture /: the fourth dimension in fin-de-siècle in literature and culture. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elizabeth L. Throesch.
• Authors: Throesch, Elizabeth L
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I:Reading the Fourth Dimension; 1. Imagining ‘Something Perfectly New’: Problems of Language, Conception and Perception; 2. Constructing the Fourth Dimension: the First Series of the Scientific Romances; 3. The Four-Dimensional Self: Personal, Political and Untimely; Part II:Reading Through the Fourth Dimension; 4. Four-Dimensional Consciousness: the Correspondence between William James and Charles Howard Hinton; 5. H. G. Wells’s Four-Dimensional Literary Aesthetic; 6. Exceeding ‘the Trap of the Reflexive’: Henry James’s Dimensions of Consciousness; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.93384; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Fourth dimension in literature; Time travel in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783086252; 9781783086245
• Related ISBNs: 9781783086238
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