Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

By Stella Pratt-Smith

Book Overview

Engaging with Victorian scientific texts, popular and specialist periodicals and the work of leading mid-century novelists, including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte and Wilkie Collins, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the synthesis of nineteenth-century electricity made possible by the combination of science, literature and the popular imagination. She

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367880032
• ISBN13: 9780367880033
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"