Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-272) and index.
Contents:
"Convergence of the twain" : a personal perspective on the interdisciplinary study of literature and science -- Literary history of astronomy and the origins of Hardy's literary cosmology -- The other "terrible muse" : astronomy and cosmology from prehistory through the Victorian period -- Hardy's personal construct cosmology : astronomy and literature converge -- Celestial selection and the cosmic environment : A pair of blue eyes, Far from the madding crowd, and The return of the native -- The stellar dynamics of star-crossed love in Two on a tower -- Universal laws and cosmic forces : the tragic astronomical muse in The woodlanders, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the obscure -- Moral astrophysics : myth cosmos, and gender in nineteenth-century Britain and beyond.
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