Output details
29 - English Language and Literature
University of Cambridge
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Book title
The Matter of Air: Science and Art of the Ethereal
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Reaktion Books
ISBN of book
978-1861897664
Year of publication
2010
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
Yes
Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
The Matter of Air has unusually wide scope, both historically, and in terms of the diverse materials it considers. It analyses the ‘imagination of the air’ from the seventeenth century to the present, taking in scientific and medical writings, memoirs of the mad, and technical writing about gas and explosions, along with atmospheric effects in art, the history of cremation and the idea of effervescence from alchemy through to popular advertisement. It develops through these materials a complex, far-reaching argument about the affinities between modernity and the air, and the erosion of the associations between the air and the infinite.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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