| Description |
ix, 433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Series |
Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series |
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Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-432) and list of 150 key works of early science fiction (pages 353-356). |
| Contents |
Cyrano de Bergerac's epistemological bodies : "pregnant with a thousand definitions" / Sylvie Romanowski (1998, with an afterword by Ishbel Addyman) -- Samuel Madden's Memoirs of the twentieth century / Paul K. Alkon (1985) -- German theories of science fiction : Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and after / William B. Fischer (1976) -- Monstrosity, suffering, subjectivity, and sympathetic community in Frankenstein and "The structure of torture" / Josh Bernatchez (2009) -- Science fiction vs. scientific fiction in France : from Jules Verne to J.-H. Rosny Aîné / Arthur B. Evans (1988) -- Future-war fiction : the first main phase, 1871-1900 / I.F. Clarke (1997 with an afterword by Margaret Clarke) -- The anatomical gaze in Tomorrow's eve / Allison de Fren (2009) -- Desde Júpiter : Chíle's earliest science-fiction novel / Andrea Bell (1995) -- The first wave : Latin American science fiction discovers its roots / Rachel Haywood Ferreira (2007) -- "Tell us all about little Rosebery" : topicality and temporality in H.G. Wells's The time machine / Nicholas Ruddick (2001) -- The phenomenology of robots : confrontations with death in Karel apek's R.U.R. / Kamila Kinyon (1999) -- Zamyatin and the nightmare of technology / Patrick A. McCarthy (1984) -- "The Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story" : Hugo Gernsback's History of science fiction / Gary Westfahl (1992) -- The historical death ray and science fiction in the 1920s and 1930s / William J. Fanning, Jr. (2010) -- C.L. Moore and the conventions of women's science fiction / Susan Gubar (1980, with an afterword by Veronica Hollinger) -- On Stapledon's Star maker / Stanislaw Lem (1987, with an afterword by István Csicsery-Rónay , Jr.). |
| Subject |
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01108566
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Evans, Arthur B., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780819574374 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0819574376 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780819574381 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780819574398 (ebook) |
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0819574384 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780819574381 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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