Algebraic Art: Mathematical Formalism and Victorian Culture

Author:   Andrea K. Henderson (Professor of English, University of California, Irvine)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198809982


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   12 April 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Andrea K. Henderson (Professor of English, University of California, Irvine)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780198809982


ISBN 10:   0198809980
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   12 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Geometry: Math for Math's Sake: Non-Euclidean Geometry and Aestheticism 2: Algebra: Symbolic Logic and the Logic of Symbolism 3: Analysis: Magic Mirrors: Formalist Realism in Victorian Photology and Photography 4: Analogy: The Physics and Poetics of Analogy 5: Invariant Forms: '[T]he bonds of verse' Form as Discipline Coda: '[T]o bury Euclid deep in the living flesh'

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exhaustively researched, original in its claims, and compelling in its conclusions. * Deanna K. Kreisel, Victorian Studies *


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Andrea Henderson is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where she has taught since 2002. She came to UCI after 11 years teaching at the University of Michigan. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1986, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. Professor Henderson's research is centered on nineteenth-century British culture. She is the author of Romantic Identities: Varieties of Subjectivity, 1774-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and articles on subjects ranging from eighteenth-century embryology to Victorian photography.

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