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Female Transcendence: Charles Howard Hinton and Hyperspace Fiction

Victorian Network October 22, 2016 Patricia Beesley (Newcastle University)

As far as nineteenth-century mathematician and writer Charles Howard Hinton was concerned, it was an unwillingness to explore beyond the boundaries of established epistemologies that prevented the conception of a fourth dimension or hyperspace. In this essay, I consider how Hinton employs the allegory of hyperspace to re-imagine women as transcendent. In the novellas, Stella and An Unfinished...