Science fiction was being written throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it underwent a rapid expansion of cultural dissemination and popularity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. This Element explores the ways this explosion in interest in 'scientific romance', that informs today's global science fiction culture, manifests the specific historical exigences of the revolutions in publishing and distribution technology. H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and other science fiction writers embody in their art the advances in material culture that mobilize, reproduce and distribute with new rapidity, determining the cultural logic of twentieth-century science fiction in the process.
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Introduction; Notes on the concept of a canon; Scientific romance; The nineteenth-century book market; The conditions of development 1880–1910 ; The extraordinisation of ordinary voyages; Science fiction's visual cultures; Conclusion.
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Re-appraises 'scientific romance', from which science fiction has grown, situating it in the material culture it was produced in.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781108708890
Publisert
2018-11-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
97 gr
Høyde
176 mm
Bredde
123 mm
Dybde
4 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
75
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