In the 19th century Romantic era, Andersen’s fairy tales used scientific imagination to write about the great changes brought by technology. Examining the scientific imagination of Andersen’s fairy tales from an ecocritical perspective reveals that: Andersen’s fairy tales use the imagination of technological progress to present the ecology of scientific and technological civilization in the 19th century, reflecting the ideological struggle between romance and ration;the objective ecological changes brought by the rapid development of science...