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Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and its Precursors
| Author: | David Seed |
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Liverpool University Press, 1995 |
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| Book Type: | Non-Fiction |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
The essays in this book focus particularly on how early SF engages with such contemporary issues as exploration, the development of science and social planning. Although written by academics, this book is cast in an accessible style, avoiding the use of theoretical jargon.
Contents:
- "Able Mechanick": The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins and the Eighteenth-Century Fantastic Voyage - (1995) - essay by Paul Baines
- Science Fiction by Gaslight: An Introduction of English-Language Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century - (1995) - essay by Edward James
- Frankenstein and the Origins of Science Fiction - (1995) - essay by Brian Stableford
- From Mary Shelley to The War of the Worlds: The Thames Valley Catastrophe - (1995) - essay by Patrick Parrinder
- Breaking the Bounds: The Rhetoric of Limits in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe, His Contemporaries and Adaptors - (1995) - essay by David Seed
- Verne's Amazing Journeys - (1987) - essay by M. Hammerton
- Imagining the Future: Predictive Fiction in the Nineteenth Century - (1995) - essay by Brian Nellist
- Imagination and Inversion in Nineteenth-Century Utopian Writing - (1995) - essay by Simon Denith
- Prediction, Programme and Fantasy in Jack London's "The Iron Heel" - (1995) - essay by Tony Barley
- Alien Dreams: Kipling - (1995) - essay by Stephen R. L. Clark
- Lesbians and Virgins: The New Motherhood in Herland - (1995) - essay by Val Gough
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