Anticipations: essays on early science fiction and its precursors/

Other Authors: Seed, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Syracuse, N.Y.]: Syracuse University Press, 1995
Edition:Syracuse University Press ed
Series:Utopianism and communitarianism
Subjects:
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260 |a [Syracuse, N.Y.]:  |b Syracuse University Press,  |c 1995 
300 |a xvi, 225 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 0 |a Utopianism and communitarianism 
500 |a "First published 1995 by Liverpool University Press ... United Kingdom"--T.p. verso 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 1 |a '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 / Brian Stableford -- From Mary Shelley to The war of the worlds : the Thames Valley catastrophe / Patrick Parrinder -- Breaking the bounds : the rhetoric of limits in the works of Edgar Allan Poe, his contemporaries and adaptors / David Seed -- Verne's amazing journeys / M. Hammerton -- Imagining the future : predictive fiction in the nineteenth-century / Brian Nellist -- Imagination and inversion in nineteenth-century utopian writing / Simon Dentith -- Prediction, programme and fantasy in Jack London's the Iron heel / Tony Barley -- Alien dreams : Kipling / Stephen R.L. Clark -- Lesbians and virgins : the new motherhood in Herland / Val Gough 
650 0 |a Science fiction, English  |x History and criticism 
650 0 |a Science fiction, American  |x History and criticism 
650 0 |a Science fiction, French  |x History and criticism 
650 0 |a Utopias in literature 
650 0 |a Voyages, Imaginary 
700 1 |a Seed, David  
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