Anticipations
essays on early science fiction and its precursors
Syracuse University Press ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Seed, David. - Contributor
Publication
1995 - Syracuse University Press, [Syracuse, N.Y.], New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
56,250 words, Guess
Page Count
225 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1116928M
- ISBN-100815626320
- OCLC Control Number31434708
- OCLC Control Numberanticipationsess00unse
- Library of Congress Control Number94043054
and 2 more
- Goodreads4655832
- LibraryThing340093
Classifications
- DDC823/.0876209
- LCCPR830.S35 A58 1995
Description
This volume of essays examines early, primarily nineteenth-century, examples of science fiction. The essays focus particularly on how this fiction engages with such contemporary issues as exploration, the development of science and social planning. Several of the writers discussed (Mary Shelley, Poe, Verne, Wells) have been proposed by literary historians as the founders of science fiction. The aim in these essays, however, is not to privilege one individual, but rather to look at the gradual convergence of a number of different genres and at the process of continuing influence of one writer on his/her successor. The collection strikes a balance between a discussion of the established names within the field and less well known works such as Symzonia and The Battle of Dorking. The volume concludes with a consideration of the utopias and dystopias of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Topics
Series Statement
- Utopianism and communitarianism
Other Editions
- Anticipations: essays on early science fiction and its precursors
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