Science, fiction, and the fin-de-siècle periodical press
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Science, fiction, and the fin-de-siècle periodical press
（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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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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