Einstein's wake :

Whitworth, Michael H.

Einstein's wake : relativity, metaphor, and modernist literature / Michael H. Whitworth. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. - ix, 254 p. ; 22 cm.

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Specialist, the Generalist, and the Populist--2. Things Fall Apart: The Secret Agent and Literary Entropy--3. Descriptionism: Consuming Sensations --4. An Entente Cordiale? The New Relations of Literature and Science --5. Invisible Men and Fractured Atoms --6. Simultaneity: A Return Ticket to Waterloo --7. Non-Euclidean Humanity.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-246) and index.

Open access.

0198186401


English literature--20th century.--History and criticism.
Literature and science--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955--Influence.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
Relativity (Physics) in literature.
Metaphor.