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Einstein's Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature
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from Oxford Univ Pr on Demand (February 21, 2002)
9780198186403 | details & prices | 254 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $175.00
About: Beginning with influential aspects of nineteenth-century physics, Einstein's Wake qualifies the notion that Einstein alone was responsible for literary "relativity"; it goes on to examine the fine detail of his legacy in literary appropriations of scientific metaphors, with particular attention to Virginia Woolf, D.