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Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle

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Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Paru le : 2020-01-07

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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.
Pages
250 pages
Collection
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Parution
2020-01-07
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783030326517
EAN PDF
9783030326524
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
25
Taille du fichier
3983 Ko
Prix
94,94 €
EAN EPUB
9783030326524
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
25
Taille du fichier
502 Ko
Prix
94,94 €

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