1st Edition

Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

By Stella Pratt-Smith Copyright 2016
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing electricity as a site for intense and imaginative Victorian speculation, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the synthesis of nineteenth-century electricity made possible by the powerful combination of science,... Read more
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Biography

Stella Pratt-Smith is a full-time Lecturer in English at New College, Swindon.