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Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle

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250 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am10.01.20201st ed. 2020
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.mehr
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KlappentextThis 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.
Zusammenfassung
Explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle

Examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft

Shows how this radical fantasy mode can be scientific

Explains how sciences themselves were often already weird
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-32651-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2020
Erscheinungsdatum10.01.2020
Auflage1st ed. 2020
ReihePalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Seiten250 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht461 g
IllustrationenX, 250 p. 1 illus.
Artikel-Nr.47507819

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: Weird tales and scientific borderlands at the fin de siècle.- Part I: Borderlands of Mind, Body, and Spirit.- Chapter2: Weird selves, weird worlds: psychology, ontology, and states of mind in Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Machen.- Chapter 3: Weird knowledge: experiments, senses, and epistemology in Stevenson, Machen, and Nesbit.- Chapter 4: Weirdfinders: reality, mastery, and the occult in E. and H. Heron, Algernon Blackwood, and William Hope Hodgson.- Part II: Borderlands of Time, Place, and Matter.- Chapter 5: Meat and mould: the weird creatures of William Hope Hodgson and H. G. Wells.- Chapter 6: Weird energies: physics, futures, and the secrets of the universe in Hodgson and Blackwood.mehr
Kritik
"In Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle, Emily Alder offers a clear and exceptionally compelling examination of the evolution of pre-Lovecraftian weird horror, a genre that simultaneously appropriates as it repudiates the positivist tendencies of Victorian science in its generation of monsters. ... Alder's monograph is a valuable contribution to scholarship on the weird and will hopefully inspire more work on this fascinating and undertheorized genre." (L. A. Delgado, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (2), 2023)

"Alder's Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle, in sum, provides a detailed close reading of the interrelationship between science and the Weird taleand, although, her study primarily concerns itself with British Weird fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, much of what is explored in this volume remains relevant to the subsequent development of the Weird tale as well as to contemporary scientific advancements." (Fredrik Blanc, Fantastika Journal, Vol. 5 (1), May, 2021)mehr

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