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Science, Fiction, and the Fin-de-Siècle Periodical Press

Buch | Softcover
230 Seiten
2018
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-50787-2 (ISBN)
43,60 inkl. MwSt
This fascinating study explores the ways in which fin-de-siècle periodicals portrayed science, both imaginatively and intellectually. It shows how general interest magazines and those who wrote for them, particularly H. G. Wells, contributed to the birth of a new genre: science fiction.
In this revisionary study, Will Tattersdill argues against the reductive 'two cultures' model of intellectual discourse by exploring the cultural interactions between literature and science embodied in late nineteenth-century periodical literature, tracing the emergence of the new genre that would become known as 'science fiction'. He examines a range of fictional and non-fictional fin-de-siècle writing around distinct scientific themes: Martian communication, future prediction, X-rays, and polar exploration. Every chapter explores a major work of H. G. Wells, but also presents a wealth of exciting new material drawn from a variety of late Victorian periodicals. Arguing that the publications in which they appeared, as well as the stories themselves, played a crucial part in the development of science fiction, Tattersdill uses the form of the general interest magazine as a way of understanding the relationship between the arts and the sciences, and the creation of a new literary genre.

Will Tattersdill is Lecturer in Victorian Literature in the Department of English at the University of Birmingham.

Introduction: material entanglements; 1. Intrinsic intelligibility; 2. Distance over time; 3. New photography; 4. Further northward; Conclusion: bad science and the study of English; Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo 20 Halftones, unspecified; 20 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 229 mm
Gewicht 370 g
Themenwelt Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-316-50787-4 / 1316507874
ISBN-13 978-1-316-50787-2 / 9781316507872
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