Science, Fiction, and the Fin-de-Si?cle Periodical Press (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 105)
Cambridge University Press
ISBN13:
9781316507872
$44.63
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-si?cle 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.
- | Author: Will Tattersdill
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 20, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 230 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
- | ISBN-10: 1316507874
- | ISBN-13: 9781316507872
- Author:
- Will Tattersdill
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- Dec 20, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 230 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Literary Criticism
- ISBN-10:
- 1316507874
- ISBN-13:
- 9781316507872