Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy

by Holly Henry

Book Overview

Holly Henry investigates how advances in astronomy in the early twentieth century had a shaping effect on Woolf's literature and aesthetics as well as on the work of modernist British writers including Vita Sackville-West, H. G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon, Bertrand Russell, and T. S. Eliot. The 1920s and 30s witnessed a pervasive public fascination with astronomy that extended from the US, where Edwin Hubble in 1923 definitively determined that entire...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521119871
• ISBN13: 9780521119870
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"