{"product_id":"energy-forms-bruce-clarke-9780472111749","title":"Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics","description":"This book follows the interplay between allegory and physics in Europe from the inception of the laws of thermodynamics in the 1850s to the cultural acceptance of the theory of relativity in the 1920s. Bruce Clarke delves into the cultural poetics of this emergence, as well as using allegory theory to link the literature of that era to the consolidation of modern physics in England. In his examination of these correlating topics the author displays not only an impressive grasp on the scientific climate of that era, but also comprehensive knowledge of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature.\u003cbr\u003eThe book begins with an overview of the interconnections between allegory in literature and allegory in science, then analyzes the interaction between energy and entropy and their personification in the literature of the times. \u003ci\u003eEnergy Forms\u003c\/i\u003e draws on the writing of well-known literary and scientific authors including H. G. Wells, Camille Flammarion, Charles Howard Hinton and D. H. Lawrence, among others. The focus then shifts to the broad cultural tension between thermodynamic malaise and electromagnetic aspiration. \u003ci\u003eEnergy Forms\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the works of important but overlooked authors in the fields of science and literature and will appeal especially to those who are intrigued by interdisciplinary studies.\u003cbr\u003eBruce Clarke is Professor of English, Texas Tech University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science; Allegories of Writing: The Subject of Metamorphosis;\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Body and the Text: Comparative Essays in Literature and Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Clarke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472111744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472111749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.50w x 1.12d","brand":"Bruce Clarke","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447752012031,"sku":"9780472111749","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f82a47c8-f294-47ff-8cf4-aec2ba48a074.jpg?v=1777234566","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/energy-forms-bruce-clarke-9780472111749","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}