Science, fiction, and the fin-de-siècle periodical press

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Science, fiction, and the fin-de-siècle periodical press

Will Tattersdill

(Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 105)

Cambridge University Press, 2018, c2016

  • : pbk

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"First published 2016. First paperback edition 2018"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-215) and index

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内容説明

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-siecle 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.

目次

  • 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.

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