Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon
The Case of Scientific Romance
Published on 24. October 2018
978-1-108-57312-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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1,93 MB
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978-1-108-57312-2 (9781108573122)
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11/2018
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Content
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.
