The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension: Higher Spatial Thinking in the Fin de Siècle
Author:   Mark Blacklock (Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198755487


Pages:   246
Publication Date:   19 April 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Mark Blacklock (Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.546kg
ISBN:  

9780198755487


ISBN 10:   0198755481
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   19 April 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Conditions of Emergence: Kant, Helmholtz, and Analogy 2: Knots: Topology, Conjuring and the Spiritualist Fourth Dimension 3: A Square: Flatland, Play, and Tradition 4: Cubes: Hintonian Higher Space and its Thinking Subject 5: Through: The Theosophical Society, Authority, and Mediation 6: Fictions: The Spaces of Literature after n-Dimensions

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a rich trove combining a wealth of research, historical context, and subtle argumentation and analysis. * Deanna K. Kreisel, Victorian Studies * a highly intelligent, perceptive, and stimulating intervention into how a mathematical idea was transposed into literary fiction, inflecting its spatial concerns and prefiguring new modes of representation. * Maxim Shadurski, The Wellsian *


a highly intelligent, perceptive, and stimulating intervention into how a mathematical idea was transposed into literary fiction, inflecting its spatial concerns and prefiguring new modes of representation. * Maxim Shadurski, The Wellsian *


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Mark Blacklock is a cultural historian and novelist. His critically acclaimed first novel I'm Jack was published by Granta in 2015. He lectures on Cultural Studies and English Literature at Birkbeck College and writes for the national press.

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