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The Poetry of Victorian Scientists

Style, Science and Nonsense
BuchGebunden
330 Seiten
Englisch
Cambridge University Presserschienen am13.08.2014
A surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried through to both their professional work and writing of lyrical and satirical verse. This is the first study of an oddly neglected body of work that offers a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science. Such figures as the physicist James Clerk Maxwell toy with ideas of nonsense, as through their poetry they strive to delineate the boundaries of the new professional science and discover the nature of scientific creativity. Also considering Edward Lear, Daniel Brown finds the Victorian renaissances in research science and nonsense literature to be curiously interrelated. Whereas science and literature studies have mostly focused upon canonical literary figures, this original and important book conversely explores the uses literature was put to by eminent Victorian scientists.mehr
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KlappentextA surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried through to both their professional work and writing of lyrical and satirical verse. This is the first study of an oddly neglected body of work that offers a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science. Such figures as the physicist James Clerk Maxwell toy with ideas of nonsense, as through their poetry they strive to delineate the boundaries of the new professional science and discover the nature of scientific creativity. Also considering Edward Lear, Daniel Brown finds the Victorian renaissances in research science and nonsense literature to be curiously interrelated. Whereas science and literature studies have mostly focused upon canonical literary figures, this original and important book conversely explores the uses literature was put to by eminent Victorian scientists.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-107-02337-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2014
Erscheinungsdatum13.08.2014
Seiten330 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 157 mm, Höhe 235 mm, Dicke 22 mm
Gewicht632 g
Artikel-Nr.18248110

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Professionals and amateurs, work and play: William Rowan Hamilton, Edward Lear and James Clerk Maxwell; 2. Edinburgh natural philosophy and Cambridge mathematics; 3. Knowing more than you think: James Clerk Maxwell on puns, analogies and dreams; 4. Red Lions: Edward Forbes and James Clerk Maxwell; 5. Popular science lectures: 'A Tyndallic Ode'; 6. John Tyndall and 'The Scientific Use of the Imagination'; 7. 'Molecular Evolution': Maxwell, Tyndall and Lucretius; 8. James Joseph Sylvester: the romance of space; 9. James Joseph Sylvester: the calculus of forms; 10. Science on Parnassus; Bibliography; Index.mehr
Kritik
"Brown's scholarship is intense and impressive." --Review 19mehr

Autor

Daniel Brown was brought up in Owego, NY and moved to the Hudson Valley in 1972.At age 58 following the death of his Father and finding more years in the past than in the future he began to write poetry. Over the next few years, poetry became a daily process and a life work he needed to pursue. Daniel has been published in Chronogram magazine, the online journals and blogs Ekphrastic Review, MONO, Jerry Jazz Musician, Poetic Sun and print anthologies published by THEMA literary journal, the Haiku Society of America, MONO anthology #3, and MIGHTIER: Poets For Social Justice. Daniel is appreciative and happy every time his work is accepted. He has hosted a youtube channel "Poetry From Shooks Pond" and lives in Red Hook, New York with his wife, daughter and two cats.