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Vintage visions : essays on early science fiction /
Top scholars investigate the nature and variety of early science fiction.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Middletown, Connecticut :
Wesleyan University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Vintage Visions; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Cyrano de Bergerac's Epistemological Bodies: "Pregnant with a Thousand Definitions" (1998, with an afterword by Ishbel Addyman); 2 Samuel Madden's Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1985); 3 German Theories of Science Fiction: Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and After (1976); 4 Monstrosity, Suffering, Subjectivity, and Sympathetic Community in Frankenstein and "The Structure of Torture" (2009); 5 Science Fiction vs. Scientific Fiction in France: From Jules Verne to J.-H. Rosny Aîné (1988).
- 6 Future-WarFiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900 (1997, with an afterword by Margaret Clarke)7 The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow's Eve (2009); 8 Desde Júpiter: Chile's Earliest Science-FictionNovel (1995); 9 The First Wave: Latin American Science Fiction Discovers Its Roots (2007); 10 "Tell Us All About Little Rosebery": Topicality and Temporality in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (2001); 11 The Phenomenology of Robots: Confrontations with Death in Karel Čapek's R.U.R. (1999); 12 Zamyatin and the Nightmare of Technology (1984).
- 13 "The Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe Type of Story": Hugo Gernsback's History of Science Fiction (1992)14 The Historical Death Ray and Science Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s (2010); 15 C.L. Moore and the Conventions of Women's Science Fiction (1980, with an afterword by Veronica Hollinger); 16 On Stapledon's Star Maker (1987, with an afterword by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.); 150 Key Works of Early Science Fiction; Bibliography of Criticism on Early Science Fiction; Contributors.