Adam Roberts

Publishing the Science Fiction Canon (eBook, PDF)

The Case of Scientific Romance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108573122
• Artikelnr.: 54567182

Inhaltsangabe

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.