| 书目名称 | Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle | | 编辑 | Emily Alder | | 视频video | | | 概述 | 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 thi | | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | | 关键词 | British Fiction; Epistemological; Fin de Siècle; Literature and Science; Nineteenth-century Literature; W | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32652-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-32654-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-32652-4Series ISSN 2634-6435 Series E-ISSN 2634-6443 | | issn_series | 2634-6435 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 |
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