Nineteenth Century Science Fiction

Volume II: Experiments, Inventions, and Case Studies
Herausgeber: Seed, David

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction. The sources are accompanied by editorial commentary, and will be of great interest to students and researchers of history and literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780367520830
• ISBN-10: 0367520834
• Artikelnr.: 69937507

Autorenporträt

David Seed holds a chair in the English Department of Liverpool University. He has written and edited a number of works on Science Fiction including Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and its Precursors (1995) and a critical edition of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel The Coming Race . He is currently co-editor of Liverpool University Press's international Science Fiction Texts and Studies series.

Inhaltsangabe

VOLUME II 1859-1900
Introduction
22. 'The Palaeoscopic Camera'
23. 'The Child of the Phalanstery'
24. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
25. 'The Great Keinplatz Experiment'
26. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
27. Blood: A Tragic Tale
28. 'With the Eyes Shut'
29. Master of His Fate
30. 'Dr. Materialismus'
31. The Crack of Doom
32. 'A Wife Manufactured to Order'
33. The Professor's Experiment
34. 'Stella'
35. The Island of Doctor Moreau
36. 'Roentgen's Curse'
37. 'In the Deep of Time'
38. 'The Star-Shaped Marks'
39. 'From the London Times of 1904'
40. 'Moxon's Master'
41. 'My Translatophone'
Bibliography
Appendix: 'Science-Fiction'
Index