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Author:

Henchman, Anna, author.

Title:

The starry sky within : astronomy and the reach of the mind in Victorian literature / Anna Henchman.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xvi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Astronomy in literature.
Astronomie (Motiv)
Englisch.
Literatur.
Astronomy in literature.
English literature.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-285) and index.

Contents:

6. pt. ONE Narratives on a Grand Scale: Astronomy and Narrative Space. 1. Astronomy, Optics, and Point of View -- 2. Thomas De Quincey's Disoriented Universe -- 3. Grief in Motion: Parallax and Orbing in Tennyson -- pt. TWO ASTRONOMY AND THE MULTIPLOT NOVEL -- Introduction: Novels as Celestial Systems -- 4. Hardy's Stargazers and the Astronomy of Other Minds -- 5. George Eliot and the Sweep of the Senses -- 6. Narratives on a Grand Scale: Astronomy and Narrative Space.

ISBN:

9780199686964
0199686963

OCLC:

(OCoLC)846551547

LCCN:

2013942193

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)