Loving faster than light
Subtitle: romance and readers in Einstein's universe
By: Katy Price
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780226680736; 9780226680750
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: English literature; Relativity (Physics); Press coverage; Relativity (Physics) in literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; English Pulp literature; Literature and science
Description: This is an insightful examination of one of the essential problems of the history of science - how does elite, esoteric knowledge get read, used, modified, and owned by those outside the professional scientific community? Price focuses on one of the defining scientific ideas of the 20th century and skillfully demonstrates the many genres and styles through which it was adopted and changed.
Table of contents: title: Light caught bending: Relativity in the newspapers; title: Einstein for the tired business man: exposition in magazines; title: Cracks in the cosmos: space and time in pulp fiction; title: A lady on Neptune: Arthur Eddington's talkative universe; title: A freak sort of planet: Dorothy L. Sayers's cosmic bachelors; title: Talking to Mars: William Empson's astronomy love poems; title: Conclusion: Dreaming the future.