Science, fiction, and the fin-de-siècle periodical press / Will Tattersdill.

• Machine generated contents note: Introduction: material entanglements; 1. Intrinsic intelligibility; 2. Distance over time; 3. New photography; 4. Further northward; Conclusion: bad science and the study of English.

• "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"-- 

Ämnesord

Populärkultur  (sao)

English periodicals  -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Serialized fiction  -- Great Britain -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Popular culture  -- England -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

English periodicals.  (fast)

Popular culture.  (fast)

Serialized fiction.  (fast)

Periodika  -- historia (sao)

Följetonger  -- historia (sao)

Popular culture  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  (sao)

England.  (fast)

Great Britain.  (fast)

1800-talet  (sao)

1800 - 1899  (fast)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.

Wells, H. G., 1866-1946

Klassifikation

PN5124.P4 (LCC)

052.09/034 (DDC)

Bd-e (kssb/8 (machine generated))