Energy forms : allegory and science in the era of classical thermodynamics

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100 1 ‡aClarke, Bruce, ‡d1950-
245 1 0 ‡aEnergy forms : ‡ballegory and science in the era of classical thermodynamics / ‡cBruce Clarke.
260 ‡aAnn Arbor : ‡bUniversity of Michigan Press, ‡cc2001.
300 ‡ax, 278 p. : ‡bill. ; ‡c25 cm.
504 ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-272) and index.
505 8 ‡aMachine generated contents note: PART 1. FORM, IDEOLOGY, SOCIAL HISTORY -- Chapter 1. Allegory and Science -- Models of Energy 17 -- The Parable of the Cave 22 -- Entropy as Allegory 25 -- Ether and Hyperspace 27 -- Allegorical Construction 30 -- Chapter 2. Phantasmagorias of Energy -- Cosmos and Commodity 35 -- Benjamin's Dialectical Image 36 -- Energy as Capital 43 -- Masters of Energy: The Coming Race 48 -- Phantasmagoric Speculations: La Fin du Monde 52 -- Chapter 3. Technoscientism -- Technoscientism as Cultural Allegory 59 -- Thermodynamic Scientisms 65 -- Energetics and Vitalism 69 -- Modernist Scientisms 73 -- Ursula and the Physics Professor 75 -- Revolution versus Entropy 78 -- PART 2. ALLEGORIES OF THERMODYNAMICS -- Chapter 4. Maxwell's Daemonic Science -- Maxwell in The Crying of Lot 49 85 -- Maxwell's Poetic Works 89 -- Allegory and Analogy 93 -- Maxwell's Electromagnetic Ether 96 -- The Demon 103 -- Chapter 5. Dark Stars -- Thermodynamic Dimensions in The Persian King 111 -- Allegorical Mechanics in The Time Machine 121 -- Dark Star Crashes: "The Star" and La Fin du Monde 1 -- Chapter 6. A Different Sun -- Order and Chaos in We 137 -- Lawrence's Cosmological Fantasia 151 -- PART 3. ALLEGORIES OF DIMENSIONALITY -- Chapter 7. The Ether of Space -- The Ether Solution 164 -- John Tyndall's Imagination 168 -- The Ether and the Fourth Dimension 172 -- Platonic Dimensions 178 -- Hinton's Gramophone 180 -- Lawrence's Ether 186 -- Chapter 8. Literary Relativity -- Concepts of Physical Relativity 193 -- Edward Carpenter's "Modern Science: A Criticism" 1 -- Dimensionality in Zamyatin 202 -- Lawrence Encounters Einstein 208 -- Lawrence's Fourth Dimension 213 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
538 ‡aMode of access: Internet.
650 0 ‡aLiterature and science.
650 0 ‡aAllegory.
650 0 ‡aThermodynamics.
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