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Informationen zum Autor James Mussell is a postdoctoral research assistant on the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) and lectures on English literature at various universities in London. Klappentext James Mussell engages with nineteenth-century scientific writing and recent theoretical discussion to propose a new methodology that situates the periodical press in space and time. Well-known writers like H. G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle are discovered in new contexts, while other authors, publishers, editors, and scientists are discussed in ways that inform current debates about the status of digital publication and the preservation of archival material in electronic forms. Zusammenfassung Provides historical accounts of scientific controversy, documents references to time and space in the periodical press, and follows magazines and journals as they circulate through society to shed light on the dissemination and distribution of periodicals, authorship and textual authority, and the role of mediation in material culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Introduction: 'Movable types'. Part 1 Spaces: Astronomy and the representation of space; The spectacular spaces of science and detection in the Strand Magazine. Part 2 Times: Representing the present; Discovery and the circulation of names; Periodicity and the rhythms of 19th-century science; Conclusions: 19th-century electricity in the electronic age; Bibliography; Index.
