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Science, Time and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press
Movable Types
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Artikel-Nr:
9780367887957
Veröffentl:
2019
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.12.2019
Seiten:
251
Autor:
James Mussell
Gewicht:
358 g
Format:
234x156x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
James Mussell is a postdoctoral research assistant on the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) and lectures on English literature at various universities in London.
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
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.