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Author:

Price, Katy.

Title:

Loving faster than light : romance and readers in Einstein's universe / Katy Price.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2012, ℗♭2012

Description:

xi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sayers, Dorothy L.--(Dorothy Leigh),--1893-1957--Criticism and interpretation.
Eddington, Arthur Stanley,--Sir,--1882-1944--Criticism and interpretation.
Empson, William,--1906-1984--Criticism and interpretation.
Relativity (Physics) in literature.
Relativity (Physics)--Press coverage.
Literature and science.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Pulp literature, English--20th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index.

Contents:

Light caught bending: relativity in the newspapers -- Einstein for the tired business man: exposition in magazines -- Cracks in the cosmos: space and time in pulp fiction -- A lady on Neptune: Arthur Eddington's talkative universe -- A freak sort of planet: Dorothy L. Sayers's cosmic bachelors -- Talking to Mars: William Empson's astronomy love poems -- Conclusion: Dreaming the future.

ISBN:

0226680738 (cloth)
9780226680736 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)779530021

LCCN:

2012007442

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)