Tattersdill, Will creator Tattersdill, Will text Great Britain. New York : Cambridge University Press 2016 monographic eng

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x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. "In this revisionary study, Will Tattersdill argues against the reductive 'two cultures' model of intellectual discourse by exploring the cultural interactions between literature and science embodied in late nineteenth-century periodical literature, tracing the emergence of the new genre that would become known as 'science fiction'. He examines a range of fictional and non-fictional fin-de-siècle writing around distinct scientific themes: Martian communication, future prediction, X-rays, and polar exploration. Every chapter explores a major work of H.G. Wells, but also presents a wealth of exciting new material drawn from a variety of late Victorian periodicals. Arguing that the publications in which they appeared, as well as the stories themselves, played a crucial part in the development of science fiction, Tattersdill uses the form of the general interest magazine as a way of understanding the relationship between the arts and the sciences, and the creation of a new literary genre Introduction: material entanglements -- 1. Intrinsic intelligibility: communications with Mars, and between disciplines, in the pages of the magazines -- 2. Distance over time: using periodicals to predict the future -- 3. New photography: X-rays and the images of the New Journalism -- 4. Further northward: polar exploration and empire in the fact and fiction of the popular press -- Conclusion: bad science and the study of English. /Will Tattersdill Magazines, journals & serials Serials in English Wells, H. G. -- (Herbert George), -- 1866-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation Serialized fiction -- Great Britain -- History and criticism Wells, H. G. -- (Herbert George), -- 1866-1946 Serialized fiction Roman Serialized fiction Wells, H. G. -- (Herbert George), -- 1866-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation Science-Fiction-Literatur Zeitschrift 052.09034 TAT 9781316507872 :Atlantic Publishers & Distributors :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi 190731 20190911155445.0