Modernist Physics by Rachel Crossland, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Modernist Physics by Rachel Crossland, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Modernist Physics by Rachel Crossland, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Modernist Physics takes as its focus the ideas associated with three scientific papers published by Albert Einstein in 1905, considering the dissemination of those ideas both within and beyond the scientific field, and exploring the manifestation of similar ideas in the literary works ofVirginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. Drawing on Gillian Beer's suggestion that literature and science "share the moment's discourse", Modernist Physics seeks both to combine and to distinguish between the two standard approaches within the field of literature and science: direct influence and thezeitgeist. The book is divided into three parts, each of which focuses on the ideas associated with one of Einstein's papers. Part I considers Woolf in relation to Einstein's paper on light quanta, arguing that questions of duality and complementarity had a wider cultural significance in the early twentiethcentury than has yet been acknowledged, and suggesting that Woolf can usefully be considered a complementary, rather than a dualistic, writer. Part II looks at Lawrence's reading of at least one book on relativity in 1921, and his subsequent suggestion in Fantasia of the Unconscious that "we are insad need of a theory of human relativity", a theory which is shown to be relevant to Lawrence's writing of relationships both before and after 1921. Part III considers Woolf and Lawrence together alongside late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century discussions of molecular physics and crowdpsychology, suggesting that Einstein's work on Brownian motion provides a useful model for thinking about individual literary characters. | Modernist Physics by Rachel Crossland, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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