The poetry of Victorian scientists : style, science and nonsense

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The poetry of Victorian scientists : style, science and nonsense

Title remainder

style, science and nonsense

Statement of responsibility

Daniel Brown

Creator

• Brown, Daniel, 1961-

Author

• Brown, Daniel, 1961-

Subject

• History
• Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879 -- Literary art
• Scientists' writings
• Sylvester, James Joseph, 1814-1897 -- Literary art
• Tyndall, John, 1820-1893 -- Literary art
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• "A surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried through to both their professional work and writing of lyrical and satirical verse. This is the first study of an oddly neglected body of work that offers a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science. Such figures as the physicist James Clerk Maxwell toy with ideas of nonsense, as through their poetry they strive to delineate the boundaries of the new professional science and discover the nature of scientific creativity. Also considering Edward Lear, Daniel Brown finds the Victorian renaissances in research science and nonsense literature to be curiously interrelated. Whereas science and literature studies have mostly focused upon canonical literary figures, this original and important book conversely explores the uses literature was put to by eminent Victorian scientists"--
• "Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles, and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried through to both their professional work and writing of lyrical and satirical verse. This is the first study of an oddly neglected body of work that offers a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science. Such figures as the physicist James Clerk Maxwell toy with ideas of nonsense, as through their poetry they strive to delineate the boundaries of the new professional science and discover the nature of scientific creativity"--

Member of

• Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 83

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• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

821/.80936

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR595.S33

LC item number

B76 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture

Series volume

83