Science fiction and the modern world: the emergence of a genre in a revolutionary age
Auteur :
Klimchynskaya, Anastasia
Éditeur :
Liverpool University Press
ISBN :
9781836244905
Date de publication :
27 févr. 2026
Dimensions :
23,9 x 16,3 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Science Fiction and the Modern World approaches the emergence of science fiction in the nineteenth century as a history of ideas, demonstrating how the nascent genre captured a paradigmatic and contradictory conceptual shift: a newfound sense of unprecedented mastery over the natural world coupled with a set of discoveries that decentred the human within the natural order.