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Simulating Antiquity in Boys' Adventure Fiction: Maps and Ink Stains: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

Autor Thomas Vranken
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 aug 2022
A genre that glorifies brutish masculinity and late Victorian imperialism, boys' 'lost world' adventure fiction has traditionally been studied for its politically problematic content. While attuned to these concerns, this Element approaches the genre from a different angle, viewing adventure fiction as not just a catalogue of texts but a corpus of books. Examining early editions of Treasure Island, King Solomon's Mines, and The Lost World, the Element argues that fin-de-siècle adventure fiction sought to resist the nineteenth-century industrialisation of book production from within. As the Element points out, the genre is filled with nostalgic simulations of material anachronisms – 'facsimiles' of fictional pre-modern paper, printing, and handwriting that re-humanise the otherwise alienating landscape of the modern book and modern literary production. The Element ends by exploring a subversive revival of lost world adventure fiction that emerged in response to ebooks at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009158947
ISBN-10: 1009158945
Pagini: 75
Dimensiuni: 127 x 178 x 4 mm
Greutate: 0.08 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. Spick and Span New Paper; 2. Written as Well as Printed by a Steam Engine; 3. Tottery Characters; 4. New New Romance; or, New Romance 2.0; Conclusion.

Descriere

This Element presents 'lost world' adventure fiction as a response to print culture's nineteenth- and twenty-first-century automation.