TY - BOOK AU - Tattersdill, Will AU - Tattersdill, Will TI - Science, fiction, and the fin-de-siècle periodical press T2 - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 105 SN - 9781316507872 U1 - 052.09034 TAT PY - 2016/// CY - New York . PB - : Cambridge University Press KW - Magazines, journals & serials KW - Serials in English KW - Wells, H. G. -- (Herbert George), -- 1866-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation KW - Serialized fiction -- Great Britain -- History and criticism KW - Wells, H. G. -- (Herbert George), -- 1866-1946 KW - Serialized fiction KW - Roman KW - Science-Fiction-Literatur KW - Zeitschrift KW - Great Britain N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -