Barri J. Gold, Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies

While the interdisciplinary divide between science and literature is a twentieth-century notion, boundaries between disciplines in the nineteenth century were more porous than we might expect. With a background in physics, Barri J. Gold has been recently devoting herself to bridging the divide. Her...

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In:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cve,
Main Author: Xiao, Xu
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Language:Anglais
Published: Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 2023
Online Access:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:While the interdisciplinary divide between science and literature is a twentieth-century notion, boundaries between disciplines in the nineteenth century were more porous than we might expect. With a background in physics, Barri J. Gold has been recently devoting herself to bridging the divide. Her first book, ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science (2010), the first book-length studies on the reciprocal relationship between Victorian literature and thermodynamics, has open...