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Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Adam Roberts
SeriesElements in Publishing and Book Culture
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:75
Dimensions(mm): Height 176,Width 123
Category/GenreLiterature - history and criticism
Literary theory
Literary studies - general
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
Science fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9781108708890
ClassificationsDewey:809.38762
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 8 November 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Science fiction was being written throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it underwent a rapid expansion of cultural dissemination and popularity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. This Element explores the ways this explosion in interest in 'scientific romance', that informs today's global science fiction culture, manifests the specific historical exigences of the revolutions in publishing and distribution technology. H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and other science fiction writers embody in their art the advances in material culture that mobilize, reproduce and distribute with new rapidity, determining the cultural logic of twentieth-century science fiction in the process.