Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Sicle

Name: Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Sicle
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This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de sicle, 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 worldfertile borderlands for fictional as well as real-world scientists to explore. Reading Robert Louis Stevensons 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.

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