Tatum, Brian Shane (Author)
Gilbert, Nora (Advisor)
This project explores the intersection of literature and science from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century in the context of this shift in conceptions of space and time. Confronted with the rapid and immense expansion of space and time, eighteenth and nineteenth-century philosophers and authors sought to locate humans’ relative position in the vast void. Furthermore, their attempts to spatially and temporally map the universe led to changes in perceptions of the relationship between the exterior world and the interior self. In this dissertation I focus on a few important textual monuments that serve as landmarks on this journey. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the intersection of literary and scientific texts transformed perceptions of space and time. These transformations then led to further advancements in the way scientific knowledge was articulated. Imagination became central to scientific writing at the same time it came to dominate literary writing. My project explores these intersecting influences among literature, astronomy, cosmology, and geology, on the perceptions of expanding space and time.
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Ferris, Timothy;
Hawking, Stephen;
Lightman, Alan;
Novikov, Igor;
Thorne, Kip;
(2002)
The Future of Spacetime
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Article
Clair, Justin St.;
(2011)
Borrowed Time: Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and the Victorian Fourth Dimension
(/isis/citation/CBB001034748/)
Book
Carmelina Imbroscio;
(2003)
Il testo letterario e il sapere scientifico
(/isis/citation/CBB822024738/)
Chapter
Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond;
(2003)
Le miroir, la cornue et la pierre de touche. Ou: que peut la littérature pour la science?
(/isis/citation/CBB629158204/)
Chapter
Paolo Rossi;
(2003)
Immagini della scienza e mondi immaginari
(/isis/citation/CBB666357903/)
Chapter
Otto, Peter;
(2011)
Inside the Imagination-Machines of Gothic Fiction: Estrangement, Transport, Affect
(/isis/citation/CBB001201376/)
Book
Frederik A. Bakker;
Delphine Bellis;
Carla Rita Palmerino;
(2019)
Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
(/isis/citation/CBB272577420/)
Book
Cheng, John;
(2012)
Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America
(/isis/citation/CBB001202122/)
Article
Richter, Peter H.;
(2012)
Gedanken zur Zeit
(/isis/citation/CBB001421053/)
Article
Wright, Aaron Sidney;
(2014)
The Advantages of Bringing Infinity to a Finite Place: Penrose Diagrams as Objects of Intuition
(/isis/citation/CBB001201044/)
Book
Kaku, Michio;
(2004)
Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time
(/isis/citation/CBB000470030/)
Article
Enrico Cinti;
Vincenzo Fano;
(2021)
Careful with those scissors, Eugene! Against the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes
(/isis/citation/CBB952356420/)
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Congdon, Howard K.;
(2003)
Philosophies of Space and Time
(/isis/citation/CBB000470958/)
Book
Raymo, Chet;
(2006)
Walking Zero: Discovering Cosmic Space and Time along the Prime Meridian
(/isis/citation/CBB000773356/)
Book
Mark Blacklock;
(2018)
The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension: Higher Spatial Thinking in the Fin De Siècle
(/isis/citation/CBB424553497/)
Article
Plotnitsky, Arkady;
(2009)
Bernhard Riemann's Conceptual Mathematics and the Idea of Space
(/isis/citation/CBB001031505/)
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Nicholas Campion;
Chris Impey;
(2018)
Imagining Other Worlds: Explorations in Astronomy and Culture
(/isis/citation/CBB676873507/)
Article
Jessica J. Williams;
(2018)
Kant on the Original Synthesis of Understanding and Sensibility
(/isis/citation/CBB065350682/)
Article
Lugones, Leopoldo;
(2005)
The Size of Space (An Essay on Mathematical Psychology)
(/isis/citation/CBB000651663/)
Article
Andrea Reichenberger;
(2021)
Émilie Du Châtelet on Space and Time
(/isis/citation/CBB162504912/)
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