Book ID: CBB000470393

Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy (2003)

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Henry, Holly (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: xiii + 208 pp.; ill.; notes; bib.; index
Language: English

Description In addition to Woolf, this book also looks at the works of modernist British writers such as Vita Sackville-West, H. G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon, Bertrand Russell, and T. S. Eliot.


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Review Neeley, Kathryn A. (2003) Review of "Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 132). unapi

Review Olowin, Ronald P. (2004) Review of "Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 240). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Tattersdill, Will
Pilar Blanco, María del
Carlo Paghetti
Blevins, Jeffrey
Kreisel, Deanna K.
Walsh, Erin Aileen
Journals
Journal of Modern Literature
Victorian Studies
Science and Education
Public Understanding of Science
Modernism/Modernity
Journal of the History of Ideas
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
York University (Canada)
University of California, Irvine
University of Pennsylvania Press
University of California, Los Angeles
Palgrave Macmillan
Concepts
Science and literature
Science fiction
Science and culture
Darwinism
Evolution
Biology
People
Wells, Herbert George
Woolf, Virginia
Darwin, Charles Robert
Lawrence, David Herbert
Eliot, Thomas Stearns
McTaggart, John M. E.
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Modern
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Mexico City (Mexico)
Europe
Mexico
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