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OverviewThe Emergence of the Fourth Dimension describes the development and proliferation of the idea of higher dimensional space in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de siècle as a staple of genre fiction and influenced a number of important Modernist writers and artists. Providing a context for thinking of space in dimensional terms, the volume describes an active interplay between self-fashioning disciplines and a key moment in the popularisation of science. It offers new research into spiritualism and the Theosophical Society and studies a series of curious hybrid texts. Examining works by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, H.G. Wells, Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, and others, the volume explores how new theories of the possibilities of time and space influenced fiction writers of the period, and how literature shaped, and was in turn shaped by, the reconfiguration of imaginative space occasioned by the n-dimensional turn. A timely study of the interplay between philosophy, literature, culture, and mathematics, it offers a rich resource for readers interested in nineteenth century literature, Modernist studies, science fiction, and gothic scholarship. Full Product DetailsAuthor: 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: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780198755487ISBN 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 Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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-DimensionsReviewsa 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 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 * Author InformationMark 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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