Physics envy: American poetry and science in the Cold War and after
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 19058074
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Chicago University Press
- ISBN
- 9780226290003
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 318pp. monograph (of 120,000 words) presents sustained interdisciplinary analysis of postwar American poetry’s response to the new physics, based on ten years study of specialist science journals, popular science, literary magazines, and forgotten critical writings on science and literature, little of which had been investigated before. It involved study of thousands of poems, canonical and unknown. It showed for the first time the wider cultural significance of ideas physicists held about poetry, how black poets saw race science as an oppressive extension of physics, and crucially developed an original theory about the influence of conceptual schemes on poetics.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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