Einstein's wake
Subtitle: relativity, metaphor, and modernist literature
By: Michael H. Whitworth.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Influence.; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.; Relativity (Physics) in literature.; Metaphor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-246) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. The Specialist, the Generalist, and the Populist; title: 2. Things Fall Apart: The Secret Agent and Literary Entropy; title: 3. Descriptionism: Consuming Sensations; title: 4. An Entente Cordiale? The New Relations of Literature and Science; title: 5. Invisible Men and Fractured Atoms; title: 6. Simultaneity: A Return Ticket to Waterloo; title: 7. Non-Euclidean Humanity.