Science, Time and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Movable Types

ISBN-13: 9780367887957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 251 str.

James Mussell

Opis

James Mussell engages with nineteenth-century scientific writing and recent theoretical discussion to propose a new methodology that situates the periodical press in space and time. Well-known writers like H. G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle are discovered in new contexts, while other authors, publishers, editors, and scientists are discussed in way

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction: 'Movable types'. Part 1 Spaces: Astronomy and the representation of space; The spectacular spaces of science and detection in the Strand Magazine. Part 2 Times: Representing the present; Discovery and the circulation of names; Periodicity and the rhythms of 19th-century science; Conclusions: 19th-century electricity in the electronic age; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

James Mussell is a postdoctoral research assistant on the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) and lectures on English literature at various universities in London.