Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Geometry: Math for Math's Sake: Non-Euclidean Geometry and Aestheticism 2: Algebra: Symbolic Logic and the Logic of Symbolism 3: Analysis: Magic Mirrors: Formalist Realism in Victorian Photology and Photography 4: Analogy: The Physics and Poetics of Analogy 5: Invariant Forms: '[T]he bonds of verse' Form as Discipline Coda: '[T]o bury Euclid deep in the living flesh'

About the Author

Andrea Henderson is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where she has taught since 2002. She came to UCI after 11 years teaching at the University of Michigan. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1986, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. Professor Henderson's research is centered on nineteenth-century British culture. She is the author of Romantic Identities: Varieties
of Subjectivity, 1774-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and articles on subjects ranging from
eighteenth-century embryology to Victorian photography.

Reviews

exhaustively researched, original in its claims, and compelling in its conclusions.
*Deanna K. Kreisel, Victorian Studies*