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Explores the first appearance of 'science fiction' in the pages of late nineteenth-century general interest periodicals.
Author : Will Tattersdill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107144655
Explores the first appearance of 'science fiction' in the pages of late nineteenth-century general interest periodicals.
Author : Emily Alder
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030326527
This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft, the most famous author of weird fiction. From laboratory experiments, thermodynamics, and Darwinian evolutionary theory to psychology, Theosophy, and the ‘new’ physics of atoms and forces, science illuminated supernatural realms with rational theories and practices. Changing scientific philosophies and questioning of traditional positivism produced new ways of knowing the world—fertile borderlands for fictional as well as real-world scientists to explore. Reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) as an inaugural weird tale, the author goes on to analyse stories by Arthur Machen, Edith Nesbit, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, E. and H. Heron, and Algernon Blackwood to show how this radical fantasy mode can be scientific, and how sciences themselves were often already weird.
Author : Richard Fallon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108996167
When the term 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to fragmentary British fossils. In subsequent decades, American discoveries—including Brontosaurus and Triceratops—proved that these so-called 'terrible lizards' were in fact hardly lizards at all. By the 1910s 'dinosaur' was a household word. Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature approaches the hitherto unexplored fiction and popular journalism that made this scientific term a meaningful one to huge transatlantic readerships. Unlike previous scholars, who have focused on displays in American museums, Richard Fallon argues that literature was critical in turning these extinct creatures into cultural icons. Popular authors skilfully related dinosaurs to wider concerns about empire, progress, and faith; some of the most prominent, like Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry Neville Hutchinson, also disparaged elite scientists, undermining distinctions between scientific and imaginative writing. The rise of the dinosaurs thus accompanied fascinating transatlantic controversies about scientific authority.
Author : Hilary Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521830720
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Author : Megan Coyer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1474405614
In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture, which served as a significant medium for the dissemination and exchange of medical and literary ideas throughout Britain, the colonies, and beyond. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press explores the relationship between the medical culture of Romantic-era Scotland and the periodical press by examining several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential and innovative literary periodical of the era.
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521850630
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Author : Iveta Jusová
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Colonies in literature
ISBN : 0814210058
Author : Julia Reid
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 2006-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403936639
In this fascinating book, Reid examines Robert Louis Stevenson's writings in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an interest in 'primitive' culture is at the heart of his work. She investigates a wide range of Stevenson's writing, including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Treasure Island, offering a new way of understanding the relationship between his Scottish and South Seas work. Reid's close attention to Stevenson's engagement with anthropological and psychological debate also illuminates the intersections between literature and science at the fin de siecle, and includes previously unpublished material from the Stevenson archive at Yale. Reid's interpretation offers a new way of understanding the relationship between his Scottish and South Seas work. Her analysis of Stevenson's engagement with anthropological and psychological debate also illuminates the dynamic intersections between literature and science at the fin de siècle.
Author : Joanne Shattock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 110708573X
A comprehensive and authoritative overview of the diversity, range and impact of the newspaper and periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain.
Author : Gretchen Braun
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814258323
Draws on current theories of trauma to examine the prehistory of those psychic and somatic responses to trauma now known as PTSD and their influence on Victorian fiction.