Rosshofgasse 2, Seminarraum S 02
Science and Victorian Periodical Culture in H.G. Wells’s "The Time Machine"
In this talk, David Shackleton will situate Wells’s early scientific romance in the context of Victorian periodical culture, reading its various versions in The Science School Journal, the National Observer and the New Review alongsideWells’s early journalism on scientific subjects, and alongside articles on scientific subjects in periodicals more generally. In particular, he will argue that situating The Time Machine in the hitherto overlooked context of geology provides insight into the romance’s central conceit of time travel, the ruined architecture of its future age, and the work’s fragmentary aesthetic.
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