Description: Modernist Physics studies literary texts and scientific ideas in their historical context to provide an original account of the ways in which Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence engaged with the scientific theories, especially those of Albert Einstein.
Review Quotes: "...[a] diligent, thoughtful and articulate study..." -- Jeff Wallace, Cardiff Metropolitan University, D.H. Lawrence Review
"Crossland expertly demonstrates the centrality of physics to Woolf and Lawrence's construction ... the fact that the reader is left with unanswered questions is in many ways an indication of the richness of Crossland's study; it indicates that the book has the potential to spark many future investigations." -- Catriona Livingstone, The Review of English Studies"Crossland's book attests not only to the ongoing generative power of the new physics but also to the continued need for scholarship that is internally elegant and surprising. Moreover, in foregrounding and testing a process of inquiry, Crossland models methodological responsibility for an increasingly interdisciplinary field. To assess the book in the terms it offers, Modernist Physics thoroughly engages several disciplines in order "to overwrite, while still expressing, [their] difference" (44). While this book would be worth reading just for its clear explana-tions and historical framing of concepts that reimagined the universe, Crossland has also made an enthralling contribution to modernist studies and Woolf scholarship." -- Margaret Greaves, Woolf Studies Annual"Modernist Physics is framed by thought-provoking examinations of the function and concerns of literature and science as a field of study, in which Crossland painstakingly examines a variety of critical models around the issues of chronology, influence, shared discourse, and the challenges posed by the inherent interdisciplinarity of modernism itself." -- Rachel Fountain Eames, The British Society for Literature and Science