During the “Beautiful Era,” fantastic fiction flourished across Western Europe and North America. Newspaper comic strips proliferated, while Britain’s Penny Dreadfuls evolved through American dime novels into the first pulp magazines. In the era’s final years, film serials emerged. Amateur detectives multiplied — Sherlock Holmes, Arsène Lupin, Nick Carter, Rouletabille, Father Brown, and Craig Kennedy — alongside occult investigators Carnacki, John Silence, and Sar Dubnotal. By contrast, criminal masterminds Fantômas, Fu Manchu, and Zigomar were just as popular. Winsor McCay provided wild visual invention with Little Nemo in Slumberland, and early sci-fi adventures like Dr. Omega expanded the genre’s frontiers. Lord Dunsany influenced a future speculative mythos trend. The era closed with Edgar Rice Burroughs introducing Tarzan and John Carter, heralding the pulp age.
| Era Belle Époque Era (1895 – 1914) |
| Alternative Names Edwardian Age, Radium Age (1904-1933), Merveilleux-Scientifique Era |
| Total Entries 102 |
| Articles Belle Époque – Wikipedia Edwardian Age – Wikipedia Merveilleux-scientifique – Aeon |
| Description During the “Beautiful Era,” fantastic fiction flourished across Western Europe and North America. Newspaper comic strips proliferated, while Britain’s Penny Dreadfuls evolved through American dime novels into the first pulp magazines. In the era’s final years, film serials emerged. Amateur detectives multiplied — Sherlock Holmes, Arsène Lupin, Nick Carter, Rouletabille, Father Brown, and Craig Kennedy — alongside occult investigators Carnacki, John Silence, and Sar Dubnotal. By contrast, criminal masterminds Fantômas, Fu Manchu, and Zigomar were just as popular. Winsor McCay provided wild visual invention with Little Nemo in Slumberland, and early sci-fi adventures like Dr. Omega expanded the genre’s frontiers. Lord Dunsany influenced a future speculative mythos trend. The era closed with Edgar Rice Burroughs introducing Tarzan and John Carter, heralding the pulp age.
The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque (French for “The Beautiful Era”) was a period of French and European history that began after the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and continued until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Occurring during the era of the French Third Republic, it was a period characterized by optimism, enlightenment, romanticism, regional peace, economic prosperity, conservatism, nationalism, colonial expansion, and technological, scientific and cultural innovations. In this era of France’s cultural and artistic climate (particularly in Paris of that time), the arts markedly flourished, and numerous masterpieces of literature, music, theatre and visual art gained extensive recognition. The Belle Époque was so named in retrospect, when it began to be considered a continental European “Golden Age” in contrast to the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and World War I… ~ Belle Époque – Wikipedia
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