D. H. Lawrence and pre-Einsteinian modernist relativity:

"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', which had been published in the previous year. The very ne...

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1. Verfasser: Hoshi, Kumiko (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2018
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Zusammenfassung:"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', 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'. 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"--
Beschreibung:viii, 167 Seiten Illustrationen 21 cm
ISBN:9781527516182
1527516180