Anticipations : essays on early science fiction and its precursors / edited by David Seed.
Anticipations : essays on early science fiction and its precursors / edited by David Seed.
Anticipations : essays on early science fiction and its precursors / edited by David Seed.
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Publisher
[Syracuse, N.Y.] : Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Date
1995.
Call Numbers
N823.0876209/2
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
'Able mechanick' : the life and the adventures of Peter Wilkins and the eighteenth-century fantastic voyage / Paul Baines -- Science fiction by gaslight : an introduction to English-language science fiction in the nineteenth century / Edward James -- Frankenstein and the origins of science fiction /...
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Publisher
[Syracuse, N.Y.] : Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Edition
Syracuse University Press ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1995.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
This volume of essays examines early, primarily nineteenth-century, examples of science fiction. The essays focus particularly on how this fiction engages with such contemporary issues as exploration, the development of science and social planning. Several of the writers discussed (Mary Shelley, Poe, Verne, Wells) have been proposed by literary his...
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Anticipations : essays on early science fiction and its precursors / edited by David Seed.
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Utopianism and communitarianism.
"First published 1995 by Liverpool University Press ... United Kingdom"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N823.0876209/2
Record Identifier
74VMBWy0LDbg
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ISBN
0815626401 (pb)
9780815626329 (cl)
0815626320 (cl)
9780815626404 (pb)
DDC
823.0876209
MMS ID
991002430619702626
