Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle

by Emily Alder

Book Overview

This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de si cle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft, the most famous author of weird fiction. From laboratory experiments, thermodynamics, and Darwinian evolutionary theory to psychology, Theosophy, and the 'new' physics of atoms and forces, science illuminated supernatural realms with rational...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030326519
• ISBN13: 9783030326517
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"