Date of Award

Summer 8-2021

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

School

Humanities

Committee Chair

Dr. Joshua Bernstein

Committee Chair School

Humanities

Committee Member 2

Dr. Olivia Clare

Committee Member 2 School

Humanities

Committee Member 3

Dr. Alexandra Valint

Committee Member 3 School

Humanities

Committee Member 4

Dr. Craig Carey

Committee Member 4 School

Humanities

Abstract

This project comprises both a critical preface and a novel about the luminiferous aether and various scientists who postulate aether as a medium in which faeries dwell. A variety of figures, both real and fictional, are featured, from Isaac Newton and Hermann Oberth to 19th-century biologists and physicists. The main plot concerns a family, the Adlers, from the late-19th century to just before World War II, and follows the different members as they each try to communicate with faeries in their own way.

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