Novel Science Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology

Informationen zum Autor Adelene Buckland is a lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at King's College London. She is coeditor of A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel! 1850-1900. Klappentext A study of the "heroic age" of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. It reveals how scientists gave Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot! Charles Kingsley! and Charles Dickens a powerful language with which to create dark and disturbing ruptures in the too-seductive sweep of story. Zusammenfassung A study of the "heroic age" of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. It reveals how scientists gave Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot! Charles Kingsley! and Charles Dickens a powerful language with which to create dark and disturbing ruptures in the too-seductive sweep of story.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Buckland Adelene, Adelene Buckland, Adelene Buckland
• Verlag: University Of Chicago Press
• Sprachen: Englisch
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.04.2013
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenscha
• EAN: 9780226079684
• ISBN: 978-0-226-07968-4
• Anzahl Seiten: 400
• Themen: English, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Geology & The Lithosphere, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form