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Title: Thomas Hardy's novel universe : astronomy, cosmology, and gender in the post-Darwinian world / Pamela Gossin.
The nineteenth century
Main Entry: Gossin, Pamela.
Publisher: Ashgate,
Publication Date: c2007.
Publication Place: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
ISBN: 9780754603368 (hbk.)
Subject: Astronomy in literature.
Cosmology in literature.
Literature and science -- History.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Astronomy.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Cosmology.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Series: The nineteenth century
Contents: "Convergence of the twain" : a personal perspective on the interdisciplinary study of literature and science -- Literary history of astronomy and the origins of Hardy's literary cosmology -- The other "terrible muse" : astronomy and cosmology from prehistory through the Victorian period -- Hardy's personal construct cosmology : astronomy and literature converge -- Celestial selection and the cosmic environment : A pair of blue eyes, Far from the madding crowd, and The return of the native -- The stellar dynamics of star-crossed love in Two on a tower -- Universal laws and cosmic forces : the tragic astronomical muse in The woodlanders, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the obscure -- Moral astrophysics : myth cosmos, and gender in nineteenth-century Britain and beyond.

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Agency:	Collection:	Call No.:	Item Type:	Status:	Copy:	Item Notes:	Barcode:	Media Type:
Faculty of Arts	General	823.8 G679	Normal Circulation	Available	1		JUF0699752	Book
Yarmouk	General	PR4757.A79 G67 2007	Normal Circulation	Available		الكتاب موجود في الطابق الثاني	YU472007	Book