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| 008 | 120517s2013 enk b 001 0 eng | ||
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_aPR595.S33 _bB877 P 2013 |
| 100 | 1 | _aBrown, Daniel | |
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_aThe poetry of Victorian scientists : _bstyle, science and nonsense / _cDaniel Brown. |
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_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013. |
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| 300 | _a310 p. | ||
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_aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; _v83 |
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| 505 | _aHKBU Library | ||
| 520 | _a"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"-- | ||
| 520 | _a"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"-- | ||
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_aEnglish poetry _y19th century _xHistory and criticism. |
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_aScientists' writings. _9210922 |
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_aLiterature and science _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century. _9210923 |
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