The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how literature and popular culture adopted the emerging language of physics to explain the unknown or 'imponderable'.
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Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable Pickering and Chatto
- Year: 2009
- Publisher / Date: Pickering and Chatto, Routledge, 2015