The Matter of Air: Science and Art of the Ethereal - Hardcover

Connor, Steven

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9781861897664: The Matter of Air: Science and Art of the Ethereal

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ISBN 10: 1861897669 ISBN 13: 9781861897664

Publisher: Reaktion Books, 2010

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'A vagrant study that includes digressions on gas lighting, s�ances, explosions, our nonsensical fear of draughts and the Victorian controversy over cremation. Yet none of these wanderings detracts from a coherent account of the science of air . . . In The Matter of Air, we're always breathing the atmosphere of several types of knowledge or experience at once, and the result is inspiring.' --Daily Telegraph

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Steven Connor is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory in the School of Literature and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (2000), The Book of Skin (Reaktion Books, 2003) and Fly (Reaktion Books, 2006).

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