Science, Fiction, and the Fin-de-Siecle Periodical Press

In this revisionary study, Will Tattersdill argues against the reductive ''two cultures'' model of intellectual discourse by exploring the cultural interactions between literature and science embodied in late nineteenth-century periodical literature, tracing the emergence of the new genre that would become known as ''science fiction''. He examines a range of fictional and non-fictional fin-de-sièc...