Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s/1990s : Apocalypse, Technoscience, Empire
- Submitting institution
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University of Brighton
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 7118864
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137263650
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2014
- 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
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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C - Cultural and Literary Histories
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The monograph explores the ways in which the apocalyptic fears at the end of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were appropriated in order to articulate anxieties about major changes in discourses of science, technology and empire. It meets the criteria for double-weighting in that it is a longer form of output; it examines extensive primary sources including canonical literature, popular culture, philosophy and popular science, including inaccessible nineteenth-century documents on thermodynamics, evolutionism and degeneration; and it explores the topic in considerable depth from the different perspectives of Darwinism, eugenics, information theory, network theory, psychoanalysis and trauma theory.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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