Starry sky within : astronomy and the reach of the mind in Victorian literature / Anna Henchman.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

'The Starry Sky Within' is an innovative study of previously unexplored connections between 19th-century astronomy and British literature. Astronomers in the 19th-century revealed a staggeringly mobile world extending far beyond the scope of human vision and Anna Henchman examines how this discovery inspired the novelists of the day.

Part one. Observers in motion. Astronomy, optics, and point of view -- Thomas De Quincey's Disoriented universe -- Grief in motion: parallax and orbing in Tennyson -- Part two. Astronomy and the multiplot novel. Introduction: Novels as celestial systems -- Hardy's stargazers and the astronomy of other minds -- George Eliot and the sweep of the senses -- Narratives on a grand scale: astronomy and narrative space.

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