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Author Gossin, Pamela

Title Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe : Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post-Darwinian World
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (319 pages)
Series The Nineteenth Century Series
Nineteenth Century Series
Contents "Convergence of the twain" : a personal perspective on the interdisciplinary study of literature and science -- Literary history of astronomy and the origins of Hardy's literary cosmology -- The other "terrible muse" : astronomy and cosmology from prehistory through the Victorian period -- Hardy's personal construct cosmology : astronomy and literature converge -- Celestial selection and the cosmic environment : A pair of blue eyes, Far from the madding crowd, and The return of the native -- The stellar dynamics of star-crossed love in Two on a tower -- Universal laws and cosmic forces : the tragic astronomical muse in The woodlanders, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the obscure -- Moral astrophysics : myth cosmos, and gender in nineteenth-century Britain and beyond
Summary In this study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, historian of science and literary scholar Pamela Gossin brings the analytical tools of both disciplines to bear as she offers unexpected and sophisticated readings of seven novels that enrich Darwinian and feminist perspectives on his work
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index
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Subject Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Astronomy
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Cosmology
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Hardy -- Thomas -- 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation. blmlsh
Hardy -- Thomas -- 1840-1928 -- Philosophy. blmlsh
Hardy -- Thomas -- 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Cosmology. blmlsh
Hardy -- Thomas -- 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Astronomy. blmlsh
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 fast
Subject Astronomy in literature.
Cosmology in literature.
Literature and science -- History
Astronomy
Astronomy in literature
Cosmology
Cosmology in literature
Literature and science
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Shattock, Joanne
ISBN 9781351879255
1351879251