ThermoPoetics energy in Victorian literature and science
Tennyson's thermodynamic solution -- Energy and empire : applications -- Grand unified theories, or, who's got guts? -- The reign of force -- A far better rest : equilibrium and entropy in a tale of two cities -- The engine and the demon : transformations -- Bleak house : the novel as engi...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, Mass., London
MIT Press
2010
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Tennyson's thermodynamic solution -- Energy and empire : applications -- Grand unified theories, or, who's got guts? -- The reign of force -- A far better rest : equilibrium and entropy in a tale of two cities -- The engine and the demon : transformations -- Bleak house : the novel as engine -- Bodies in heat : demons, women, and emergent order. |
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| Beschreibung: | Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-319) and index. - The consolation of physics : discovery -- Introduction: That thing we do -- Tennyson's thermodynamic solution -- Energy and empire : applications -- Grand unified theories, or, who's got GUTs? -- The reign of force -- A far better rest : equilibrium and entropy in A tale of two cities -- The engine and the demon : transformations -- Bleak house : the novel as engine -- Bodies in heat : demons, women, and emergent order |
| Beschreibung: | X, 343 S. graph. Darst. 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780262013727 978-0-262-01372-7 026201372X 0-262-01372-X |