Table of Contents

Introduction Part One: Form, Ideology, Social History Chapter 1. Allegory and Science Models of Energy The Parable of the Cave Entropy as Allegory Ether and Hyperspace Allegorical Construction Chapter 2. Phantasmagorias of Energy Cosmos and Commodity Benjamin's Dialectical Image Energy as Capital Masters of Energy: The Coming Race Phantasmagoric Speculations: La Fin du Monde Chapter 3. Technoscientism Technoscientism as Cultural Allegory Thermodynamic Scientisms Energetics and Vitalism Modernist Scientisms Ursula and the Physics Professor Revolution versus Entropy Part Two: Allegories of Thermodynamics Chapter 4. Maxwell's Daemonic Science Maxwell in The Crying of Lot 49 Maxwell's Poetic Works Allegory and Analogy Maxwell's Electromagnetic Ether The Demon Chapter 5. Dark Stars Thermodynamic Dimensions in The Persian King Allegorical Mechanics in the Time Machine Dark Star Crashes: ""The Star"" and La Fin du Monde Chapter 6. A Different Sun Order and Chaos in We Lawrence's Cosmological Fantasia Part Three: Allegories of Dimensionality Chapter 7. The Ether of Space The Ether Solution John Tyndall's Imagination The Ether and the Fourth Dimension Platonic Dimensions Hinton's Gramophone Lawrence's Ether Chapter 8. Literary Relativity Concepts of Physical Relativity Edward Carpenter's ""Modern Science: A Criticism"" Dimensionality in Zamyatin Lawrence Encounters Einstein Lawrence's Fourth Dimension Notes Bibliography Index to come