Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle
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| Yhteenveto: | X, 250 p. 1 illus. text |
| Kieli: | englanti |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2020.
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| Painos: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Sarja: | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
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| Linkit: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32652-4 |
| Aineistotyyppi: | Elektroninen Kirja |
Sisällysluettelo:
- Chapter 1: Weird tales and scientific borderlands at the fin de siècle
- Part I: Borderlands of Mind, Body, and Spirit
- Chapter2: Weird selves, weird worlds: psychology, ontology, and states of mind in Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Machen
- Chapter 3: Weird knowledge: experiments, senses, and epistemology in Stevenson, Machen, and Nesbit
- Chapter 4: Weirdfinders: reality, mastery, and the occult in E. and H. Heron, Algernon Blackwood, and William Hope Hodgson
- Part II: Borderlands of Time, Place, and Matter
- Chapter 5: Meat and mould: the weird creatures of William Hope Hodgson and H. G. Wells
- Chapter 6: Weird energies: physics, futures, and the secrets of the universe in Hodgson and Blackwood.