Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance
Author:   Adam Roberts (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781108708890


Pages:   75
Publication Date:   08 November 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance


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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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Author:   Adam Roberts (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.30cm , Height: 0.40cm , Length: 17.60cm
Weight:   0.097kg
ISBN:  

9781108708890


ISBN 10:   1108708897
Pages:   75
Publication Date:   08 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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.

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