{"product_id":"nineteenth-century-poetry-and-the-physical-sciences-poetical-matter-von-gregory-tate","title":"Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences","description":"\n                \u003cp\u003e\n                    \u003ci\u003ePoetical Matter\u003c\/i\u003e examines the two-way exchange of language and methods between nineteenth-century poetry and the physical sciences. The book argues that poets such as William Wordsworth, Mathilde Blind, and Thomas Hardy identified poetry as an experimental investigation of nature’s materiality. It also explores how science writers such as Humphry Davy, Mary Somerville, and John Tyndall used poetry to formulate their theories, to bestow cultural legitimacy on the emerging disciplines of chemistry and physics, and to communicate technical knowledge to non-specialist audiences. The book’s chapters show how poets and science writers relied on a set of shared terms (“form,” “experiment,” “rhythm,” “sound,” “measure”) and how the meaning of those terms was debated and reimagined in a range of different texts.\u003cbr\u003e\n                \u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003e“A stimulating analysis of nineteenth-century poetry and physics. In this groundbreaking\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003estudy, Tate turns to sound to tease out fascinating continuities across\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003escientific inquiry and verse. Reflecting that ‘the processes of the universe’ were\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003ethemselves ‘rhythmic,’ he shows that a wide range of poets and scientists were\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003ethinking through undulatory motion as a space where the material and the immaterial\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003emet. ‘The motion of waves,’ Tate demonstrates, was ‘the exemplary form in\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003ethe physical sciences.’ Sound waves, light, energy, and poetic meter were each\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003echaracterized by a ‘process of undulation,’ that could be understood as both a\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003ephysical and a formal property. Drawing on work in new materialism and new\u003c\/p\u003eformalism, Tate illuminates a nineteenth-century preoccupation with dynamic patterning\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003ethat characterizes the undulatory as (in John Herschel’s words) not ‘things,\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003ebut forms.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003e—Anna Henchman, Associate Professor of English at Boston University, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003e“This impressive study consolidates and considerably advances the field of physics\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eand poetry studies. Moving easily and authoritatively between canonical and scientist\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003epoets, Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences draws scientific\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003ethought and poetic form into telling relation, disclosing how they were understood\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003evariously across the nineteenth century as both comparable and competing\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eways of knowing the physical world. Clearly written and beautifully structured,\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eNineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences is both scholarly and accessible,\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003ea fascinating and indispensable contribution to its field.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003e—Daniel Brown, Professor of English at the University of Southampton, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003e“Essential reading for Victorianists. Tate’s study of nineteenth-century poetry and\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003escience reconfi gures debate by insisting on the equivalence of accounts of\u003c\/p\u003eempirical fact and speculative theory rather than their antagonism. The\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eundulatory rhythms of the universe and of poetry, the language of science and of\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003everse, come into new relations. Tate brilliantly re-reads Coleridge, Tennyson,\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eMathilde Blind and Hardy through their explorations of matter and ontological\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003ereality. He also addresses contemporary theory from Latour to Jane Bennett.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003e— Isobel Armstrong, Emeritus Professor of English at Birkbeck, University of London, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003e\n                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783030314408\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePoetical Matter\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783030314439\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePoetical Matter\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9783030314408","offer_id":32637904191581,"sku":"9783030314408","price":90.94,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Softcover - 9783030314439","offer_id":39419524251741,"sku":"9783030314439","price":90.94,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/bb34680b-e2a2-448a-be2b-7922b8454df0.jpg?v=1773465820","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/nineteenth-century-poetry-and-the-physical-sciences-poetical-matter-von-gregory-tate","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}