How come nonsense literature (Alice in Wonderland etc) didn’t thrive as a genre, but science fiction and modern fantasy/horror, born around the same period, did? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_nonsense …
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Hmm the OG of all Industrial Age genre fiction, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, had elements of at least 3 distinct later genres: sf, horror, fantasy (via zombies). I’m fascinated by genre fiction, it interests me way more than literary fiction.
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