Ghostly fiction took a new and definite turn with the rapid advance in scientific knowledge and investigation in the latter part of the nineteenth century, for the work of Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, and their co-laborers did as much to quicken thought in romance as in other lines. The application of modern science to supernaturalism, or of the supernatural to modern science, is one of the distinctive features of recent literature.
It might surprise you to see where some of your favourite film and TV tropes and memes originated. It became an important reference for critics and scholars of comparative literature. Dr Scarborough wrote The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction in 1917. Did you ever wonder what science fiction and fantasy criticism looked like in the early days? Here are excerpts from the work of one of the first critics of the genres, Dorothy Scarborough of Columbia University.
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