| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) |
| Contents |
Part one. Observers in motion. Astronomy, optics, and point of view -- Thomas De Quincey's Disoriented universe -- Grief in motion: parallax and orbing in Tennyson -- Part two. Astronomy and the multiplot novel. Introduction: Novels as celestial systems -- Hardy's stargazers and the astronomy of other minds -- George Eliot and the sweep of the senses -- Narratives on a grand scale: astronomy and narrative space |
| Summary |
'The Starry Sky Within' is an innovative study of previously unexplored connections between 19th-century astronomy and British literature. Astronomers in the 19th-century revealed a staggeringly mobile world extending far beyond the scope of human vision and Anna Henchman examines how this discovery inspired the novelists of the day |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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Astronomie Motiv
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Englisch
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Literatur
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191510571 |
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0191510572 |
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9780191770449 |
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0191770442 |
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