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The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense
Contributor(s): Brown, Daniel (Author)

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ISBN: 1107527449     ISBN-13: 9781107527447
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 821.809
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.97 lbs) 330 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Brown, Daniel: - Daniel Brown is Professor of English at the University of Southampton.
 
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