Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Popular Astronomy KU Leuven
Fascination for astronomical phenomena ran wide in the modernist period. While new technologies and media crazed public fascination, modern literature continued its ancient role, leading back as far as Hesiod, in mediating astronomical knowledge and expanding the powers of imagining the cosmos. Bestselling novels by Jules Verne, H.G. Wells or Kurd Lasswitz are the most well-known examples, yet a much greater variety of fiction that mediated ...