Thermopoetics
Subtitle: energy in Victorian literature and science
By: Barri J. Gold.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780262013727
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Physics in literature; Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tennyson's thermodynamic solution; title: Energy and empire : applications; title: Grand unified theories, or, who's got guts?; title: The reign of force; title: A far better rest : equilibrium and entropy in a tale of two cities; title: The engine and the demon : transformations; title: Bleak house : the novel as engine; title: Bodies in heat : demons, women, and emergent order.