Released back in April 2018, The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension: Higher Spatial Thinking in the Fin de Siecle. Not just a book of the history of mathematics, but a survey of the cultural influence of the new discoveries at the time when Lovecraft was a youth and young man…
“the volume describes an active interplay between self-fashioning disciplines and a key moment in the popularisation of science. It offers new research into spiritualism and the Theosophical Society and studies a series of curious hybrid texts. Examining works by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, H.G. Wells, Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, and others, the volume explores how new theories of the possibilities of time and space influenced fiction writers of the period, and how literature shaped, and was in turn shaped by, the reconfiguration of imaginative space occasioned by the n-dimensional turn.”