An original account of the ways in which Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence engaged with the scientific ideas~Considers literary texts and scientific ideas in their historical context~Explores Albert Einstein's thought on the properties of light, the theory of relativity, and Brownian motion~Goes back to Einstein's original 1905 papers to consider the emergence, development, and dissemination of his ideas~The shared discourse model allows for both the combination of, and a distinction between, the two most common approaches within the field of literature and science: direct influence and the zeitgeist