Will Tattersdill: Science, Fiction, and the Fin-De-Siècle Periodical Press, Gebunden
Science, Fiction, and the Fin-De-Siècle Periodical Press
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, 03/2016
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781107144651
- Item number:
- 8344699
- Volume:
- 241 Pages
- Weight:
- 514 g
- Format:
- 235 x 162 mm
- Thickness:
- 18 mm
- Release date:
- 29.3.2016
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
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.