Energy Forms by Bruce Clarke - 9780472111749

Energy FormsAllegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics\nAuthor(s): Bruce Clarke\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472111749, 978-0472111749\nSynopsis\nThis book follows the interplay between allegory and physics in Europe from the inception of the laws of thermodynamics in the 1850s to the cultural acceptance of the theory of relativity in the 1920s. Bruce Clarke delves into the cultural poetics of this emergence, as well as using allegory theory to link the literature of that era to the consolidation of modern physics in England. In his examination of these correlating topics the author displays not only an impressive grasp on the scientific climate of that era, but also comprehensive knowledge of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature.\nThe book begins with an overview of the interconnections between allegory in literature and allegory in science, t.