Being modern : the cultural impact of science in the early twentieth century /: the cultural impact of science in the early twentieth century. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robert Bud, Paul Greenhalgh, Frank James, Morag Shiach.
• Editors: Bud, Robert; Greenhalgh, Paul, 1955 October 21; James, Frank A. J. L, 1955-; Shiach, Morag
• Contents: Being Modern: Introduction; Robert Bud and Morag Shiach ; ; Section 1: Science, modernity and culture ; 1 Multiple modernisms in concert: the sciences, technology and culture in Vienna around 1900; Mitchell G. Ash ; 2 The cinematic sound of industrial modernity: first notes; Tim Boon ; 3 Woolf’s atom, Eliot’s catalyst and Richardson’s waves oflight: science and modernism in 1919; Morag Shiach ; 4 T.S. Eliot: modernist literature, disciplines and thesystematic pursuit of knowledge; Kevin Brazil; ; Section 2: Tensions over science ; 5 Modernity and the ambivalent significance of applied science: motors, wireless, telephones and poison gas; Robert Bud ; 6 ‘The springtime of science’: modernity and the future andpast of science; Frank A.J.L. James ; 7 ‘Come on you demented modernists, let’s hear from you’:science fans as literary critics in the 1930s; Charlotte Sleigh; ; Section 3:Mathematics and physics ; 8 Modern by numbers: modern mathematics as a model forliterary modernism; Nina Engelhardt ; 9 Sculpture in the Belle Epoque: mathematics, art andapparitions in school and gallery; Lewis Pyenson ; 10 Architecture, science and purity; Judi Loach ; 11 A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Ham: wireless, modernity and interwar nuclear physics Jeff Hughes ; 12 Whose modernism, whose speed? Designing mobility for thefuture, 1880s–1945; Ruth Oldenziel ; Section 4: Life, biology and the organicist metaphor; 13 Ludwig Koch’s birdsong on wartime BBC radio: knowledge, citizenship and solace; Michael Guida ; 14 ‘More Modern than the Moderns’: performing culturalevolution in the Kibbo Kift Kindred; Annebella Pollen ; 15 Organicism and the modern world: from A.N. Whitehead toWyndham Lewis and D.H. Lawrence; Craig Gordon ; 16 Liquid crystal as chemical form and model of thinking inAlfred Döblin’s modernist science; Esther Leslie ; 17 ‘I am attracted to the natural order of things’: LeCorbusier’s rejection of the machine; Tim Benton ; Epilogue: Science after modernity; Frank A.J.L. James andRobert Bud ; Select bibliography; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 306.4509410904; Science -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Science in popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Civilization, Modern -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787353961; 9781787353978
• Related ISBNs: 9781787353954; 9781787353947
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