Richard Jefferies After London ; or Wild England /

A scholarly edition of a significant and exciting late Victorian science fiction novel. Richard Jefferies' After London is uncanny and intriguing, an adventure story, quest romance, dystopia, and Darwinian novel rolled into one, but also a pioneering work of Victorian science fiction. Imagining...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jefferies, Richard, 1848-1887 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Frost, Mark (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Colección:Edinburgh critical editions of nineteenth-century texts.
Temas:
Jefferies, Richard, > 1848-1887. > After London.
1800-1899
FICTION > Alternative History.
FICTION > General.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > General.
English fiction.
England.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • A Richard Jefferies Chronology
  • A Note on the Text
  • Part I The Relapse into Barbarism
  • CHAPTER I THE GREAT FOREST
  • CHAPTER II WILD ANIMALS
  • CHAPTER III MEN OF THE WOODS
  • CHAPTER IV THE INVADERS
  • CHAPTER V THE LAKE
  • Part II Wild England
  • CHAPTER I SIR FELIX
  • CHAPTER II THE HOUSE OF AQUILA
  • CHAPTER III THE STOCKADE
  • CHAPTER IV THE CANOE
  • CHAPTER V BARON AQUILA
  • CHAPTER VI THE FOREST TRACK
  • CHAPTER VII THE FOREST TRACK CONTINUED
  • CHAPTER VIII THYMA CASTLE
  • CHAPTER IX SUPERSTITIONS
  • CHAPTER X THE FEAST
  • CHAPTER XI AURORA
  • CHAPTER XII NIGHT IN THE FOREST
  • CHAPTER XIII SAILING AWAY
  • CHAPTER XIV THE STRAITS
  • CHAPTER XV SAILING ONWARDS
  • CHAPTER XVI THE CITY
  • CHAPTER XVII THE CAMP
  • CHAPTER XVIII THE KING'S LEVY
  • CHAPTER XIX FIGHTING
  • CHAPTER XX IN DANGER
  • CHAPTER XXI A VOYAGE
  • CHAPTER XXII DISCOVERIES
  • CHAPTER XXIII STRANGE THINGS
  • CHAPTER XXIV FIERY VAPOURS
  • CHAPTER XXV THE SHEPHERDS
  • CHAPTER XXVI BOW AND ARROW
  • CHAPTER XXVII SURPRISED
  • CHAPTER XXVIII FOR AURORA
  • Appendix 1 Richard Jefferies, 'The Great Snow' (fragment, 1876)
  • Appendix 2 Richard Jefferies, ['Alone in London'] (Untitled fragment, undated MS, British Library, Add. MSS 58817)

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