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Saturday Apr 07, 2018
Ambition, Anxiety, and the Unseen Universe: Science and Victorian Fiction
Saturday Apr 07, 2018
Saturday Apr 07, 2018
(Lucy) It’s a truism to say that the Victorian age was a period of rapid technological and social change. It was also a period when science, increasingly, posited proofs for the unseen, from bacteria to mental illness to sexual orientation. Scientific discoveries and debates were cause for anxiety, as well as excitement. Whether through fictional scientists or science fiction, literature could be a place to explore society’s complex relationships to scientific change.
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