D.H. Lawrence and pre-Einsteinian modernist relativity

著者

• 星, 久美子 ホシ, クミコ

書誌事項

D.H. Lawrence and pre-Einsteinian modernist relativity

by Kumiko Hoshi

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

On the 15th of June 1921, during his stay in Baden-Baden, Germany, British novelist D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) encountered the German physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Lawrence read an English translation of Relativity: The Special and General Theory, which had been published in the previous year. The very next day he wrote: "Einstein isn't so metaphysically marvellous, but I like him for taking out the pin which fixed down our fluttering little physical universe" (4L 37). Lawrence's first response to Einstein is ambivalent, for his reading of works by Victorian relativists such as Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, William James, Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel had helped him foster his own concept of relativity, while his representations of relativity had interacted with modern artists including Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and Umberto Boccioni. This book shows Lawrence's exploration of relativity in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European cultural climate of Modernism and examines his representation of relativity in Women in Love (1920), The Lost Girl (1920), Aaron's Rod (1922) and The Fox (original version, 1920; revised version, 1922).

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB28540490
• ISBN:
  • 9781527516182
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Newcastle upon Tyne
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 167 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 823.912
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Relativity in literature
  • LCSH : Modernism (Literature)