ISBN: 9780472111749 - Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair/good. 1st Edition. viii - 278 pp. The University of Michigan Press, Michigan 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket shows some shelving wear. Dark grey linen covers with silver spine lettering. Clean inside, without annotations or underlinings. Ex. library of the Library of the Ghent University: 2 small stamps on the end papers. Otherwise a good/very good copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Included. pp.viii, 278 pages, a Fine hardback in a fine dust-jacket [0472111744]. Signed (half) by the author 'Bruce' on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine condition, light shelf wear, clean and tight text box, unread condition.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardback. Condition: New. This book follows the interplay between allegory and physics in Europe from the inception of the laws of thermodynamics in the 1850s to the cultural acceptance of the theory of relativity in the 1920s. Bruce Clarke delves into the cultural poetics of this emergence, as well as using allegory theory to link the literature of that era to the consolidation of modern physics in England. In his examination of these correlating topics the author displays not only an impressive grasp on the scientific climate of that era, but also comprehensive knowledge of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature.The book begins with an overview of the interconnections between allegory in literature and allegory in science, then analyzes the interaction between energy and entropy and their personification in the literature of the times. Energy Forms draws on the writing of well-known literary and scientific authors including H. G. Wells, Camille Flammarion, Charles Howard Hinton and D. H. Lawrence, among others. The focus then shifts to the broad cultural tension between thermodynamic malaise and electromagnetic aspiration. Energy Forms uncovers the works of important but overlooked authors in the fields of science and literature and will appeal especially to those who are intrigued by interdisciplinary studies.Bruce Clarke is Professor of English,Texas Tech University. He is the author of Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science; Allegories of Writing: The Subject of Metamorphosis; and editor of The Body and the Text: Comparative Essays in Literature and Medicine.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:0472111744. …

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