Voices Prophesying War. Late Victorian Scientists and Speculative Writers
Voices Prophesying War. Late Victorian Scientists and Speculative Writers

Author(s): Dominika Oramus
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: late Victorian science; physicists; invasion narratives; war fiction; H. G. Wells
Summary/Abstract: The relationship between late Victorian scientists and speculative writers is reviewed in this article in the context of British popular and fictional approaches to scientific research, including the use of scientific inventions in invasion narratives and war fiction. It shows interactions between novelists like H. G. Wells and the work of British particle physicists, a summary of whose achievements is provided.

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