Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siecle
- Submitting institution
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Edinburgh Napier University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 2537667
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-32652-4
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783030326517
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is a unique interdisciplinary analysis of the development of the weird tale, revising conventional accounts of its emergence in the late nineteenth century. It theorises for the first time that the cultures of late Victorian science directly gave rise to the weird tale, and that scientists and authors of the weird both engaged with the same questions about scientific knowledge in their historical moments. The monograph offers original readings of famous literary works alongside recognition of significant neglected literary voices, and cuts across disciplinary boundaries to draw directly on contemporaneous science writings in biology, physics, and psychology.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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