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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Imponderable Matter
1. Dickensian Physics: Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend and the Luminiferous Ether
2. The Residuum, Victorian Naturalism and the Entropic Narrative
3. Overcoming Entropy: Energy, Capital and the Late-Victorian Literary Utopia
4. Empire and the Fourth Dimension: Non-Euclidean Geometry, the Heterotopic Narrative and the Economics of Space
Epilogue: Atoms and Economics – Vortex Theory and Finance
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